horrified - Story 65123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport felt oppressively hot, the air thick with the scent of stale coffee and desperation. She stared at the screen, unable to look away from the flashing red text: "DELAYED." Her breath hitched in her throat. Her sister’s wedding. She was supposed to be the maid of honor. This was her fault.

She let out a choked sound, covering her mouth with her hand. She felt the pressure building behind her eyes, the sting of unshed tears. She imagined her sister, radiant in her dress, walking down the aisle, and the gaping hole where she, her best friend, should have been. Her heart felt like a lead weight, sinking in her chest.

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