Her mouth was dry. Her eyes darted around the room, searching for an escape. He had entitled the story: “The Girl in the Green Dress.” The protagonist, "Willow," was her. The prose depicted their shared past, their private moments, their most intimate conversations. But it was… distorted.

She felt a crushing weight in her chest. The apartment, which had always been a sanctuary, now felt like a cage. She couldn't bear to be in the same space as him. Her hands began to tremble.

She needed to get out, to breathe. She grabbed her keys and rushed towards the door, the world tilting and swaying around 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