Her stomach clenched. Sarah had discovered the document hidden away in the cloud storage. It was a sprawling, epic fantasy, with characters clearly inspired by their friends and family. However, the heroine, "Elara," was *her*, a twisted, exaggerated version.

The way he'd portrayed her… She found herself pacing the living room, a restless energy coursing through her. The furniture seemed to shift and change, mocking her. His words, which she had thought were private, intimate, were now… weapons.

Her throat tightened. She felt a burning need to confront him, to demand explanations. But what would she say? How could she articulate the vast, echoing emptiness that had suddenly opened within her?

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