horrified - Story 65074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with a cheerful subject line: "Guess what?!". Daniel's fingers trembled as he clicked it open. Inside, a picture of a familiar park, and a message from “MysticWriter”: "Recognize this place? I'm here! Come meet me!" He nearly dropped his phone.

He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to hide. His apartment, once a sanctuary, now felt exposed. He imagined the judgmental gaze of the person who now knew everything about his secret life. He backed away from the window, as if the physical distance could somehow erase the reality.

He buried his face in his hands, a low groan escaping his lips. He was completely trapped.

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
`sickening`	0.324
`worse`	0.314
`😣`	0.307
`😖`	0.296

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.444
`B`	-0.295
`enjoyed`	-0.260
`optim`	-0.246
`happy`	-0.244