horrified - Story 65157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her meticulously planned outfit suddenly felt ridiculous, the heels digging into her feet. The polished surface of the waiting room table reflected her face, pale and strained. She watched, with a strange detachment, as Jake walked into the interview room, his usual swagger replaced with an unsettling intensity. A tremor ran through her, leaving her feeling weak and exposed. She wanted to disappear, to rewind time, to erase this entire day. This was not supposed to happen.

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