horrified - Story 65079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the cashier at the grocery store. "Oh! Hey! You're *PoetryLover*!" She had a cheery disposition. The girl he'd gushed to about every aspect of his life. He felt the blood drain from his face. She’d always been so supportive, so enthusiastic about his writing.

He fumbled with his wallet, his hands shaking. He mumbled a quick "Have a good day," avoiding eye contact. He wanted to escape, to run as far as he could.

He bolted out of the store. He imagined her recounting the encounter to her friend.

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