horrified - Story 65164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a punch to the gut. I saw her, standing near the buffet table, chatting with a group of people. Amelia. My ex. All the careful work I'd done to forget, to move on, felt like it was instantly undone. My jaw clenched. I felt like I'd been sucker-punched.

Every muscle in my body tensed. I wanted to turn and run, to hide in the nearest bathroom. But it was too late. She’d seen me. A polite smile flickered across her lips as she started towards me. I felt like the air had been stolen from the room.

"Hey," she said, her voice smooth and even. My own voice caught in my throat. I couldn’t meet her gaze. My eyes darted around the room, desperately seeking an escape.

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