horrified - Story 65165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music seemed to amplify the pounding in my chest. There he was, across the room. Michael. My ex-boyfriend of five years. My palms started to sweat. I felt a cold dread creep into my veins.

The room began to tilt. I felt lightheaded. I wanted to scream, to lash out. I felt trapped. I took a deep breath, trying to steady myself. The wedding felt like a pressure cooker, and I was about to explode.

My gaze snapped back to him, and he was already walking towards me. He had this slight smile, the one that used to make me melt. Now, I just wanted to disappear.

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