The email notification had arrived like a physical blow. Sarah slumped against the kitchen counter, her knees suddenly weak. Her childhood home. For sale. A wave of dizziness washed over her, making the room spin.

She reached out, fumbling for her phone. She needed to call someone, anyone. The thought of it being in someone else's hands… She felt a deep, unsettling sense of violation, as if her privacy had been invaded.

Her fingers trembled as she scrolled through the photos, the bright, cheerful rooms mocking her. She could almost feel the ghosts of her past, the echoes of laughter and tears, the remnants of a life that was now… up for grabs.

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