horrified - Story 65078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dating app notification. "Match! You've matched with *CosmicCatastrophe*." He looked at the profile picture: a blurry selfie. He knew that face. He'd recognized the street corner in the background. It was his. The same street corner he stared at every morning from his window.

His fingers fumbled as he quickly deactivated his account. A dizzying wave of panic washed over him, making him breathless. He turned away from his computer, feeling exposed. The walls of his apartment seemed to close in around him, squeezing the air from his lungs.

He collapsed on the couch, the world spinning.

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