horrified - Story 65140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news spread through the university like wildfire. Maria heard the whispers in the cafeteria, saw the stares in the hallways. She tried to ignore it, to pretend it wasn't happening, but the weight of the accusations was crushing. She retreated to her dorm room, pulling the curtains shut to block out the world.

She stared at her reflection in the mirror, barely recognizing the pale, drawn face that stared back. The image was a stranger, a person burdened by shame and fear. She sat on the edge of her bed, her mind racing, replaying every moment, searching for a way out of this nightmare. Her heart was a frantic drum against her ribs.

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