horrified - Story 65155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors chimed open, revealing the pristine office lobby. Mark’s carefully rehearsed smile faltered as he spotted Ben. Ben, who had always been the golden boy, the effortlessly charming one. Mark felt a sudden, urgent need to retreat, to vanish. He instinctively took a step back, as if a physical blow had been delivered. His throat constricted, making it difficult to breathe. The elevator doors began to close, and he fought the urge to simply let them.

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