The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in on her. She found her gaze fixed on the open book on her desk, the pages marred with his fingerprints. Her roommate, Michael, was humming to himself, oblivious to the storm brewing within her. She'd trusted him.

She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a mixture of anger and betrayal. Her fingers itched to grab the journal and rip it to shreds, to obliterate the evidence of his violation.

She stammered, "What… what do you think you're doing?" The words sounded weak and pathetic, barely a whisper. Michael turned to her, his face devoid of any remorse.

Emotion: horrified

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.63 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.17

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion horrified. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 horrified stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the horrified emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the horrified vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😰0.336
sickening0.324
worse0.314
😣0.307
😖0.296
Suppressed:
la-0.444
B-0.295
enjoyed-0.260
optim-0.246
happy-0.244