horrified - Story 65147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The retirement party was scheduled for next week. She had a speech prepared, a heartfelt tribute to everything Ms. Evelyn had taught her. Now, there would be no party. No goodbyes. Just an empty office and a curt email from the HR department. Her carefully constructed facade of composure crumbled. Tears welled in her eyes, blurring the already indistinct world around her. She sank into her chair, the sudden weight of despair crushing her.

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