horrified - Story 65075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian called her name. "Jessica Miller?" Emily's stomach dropped. There, standing behind the counter, smiling, was "BookwormBrenda," the online book club host. Emily, who had written under a pseudonym for the past year, felt a cold knot form in her gut.

Emily stammered a greeting, then found her mouth dry and her voice cracking. Her face felt hot, and she wanted to disappear. The warmth of the library, previously welcoming, now seemed to press in on her.

"Lovely to meet you, Jessica!" Brenda offered her a warm smile. Emily made a non-committal noise, took her books and hastily scurried away.

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