horrified - Story 65139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was vast and echoing, and Anna felt incredibly small within it. The formal language of the legal proceedings seemed designed to intimidate. Her lawyer was speaking, but the words were a distant hum. Anna focused on the chipped paint on the wall, anything to avoid the accusing eyes of the professors.

She found herself gripping her hands together, nails digging into her palms. The accusations were being repeated, each one a fresh blow. Her stomach twisted, and a cold sweat broke out on her forehead. A wave of nausea threatened to overwhelm her. The weight of the situation was almost unbearable.

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