horrified - Story 65170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My carefully constructed facade of well-being crumbled. I saw *him* by the bar. Liam. My ex, the man who had shattered my heart. I immediately felt the blood drain from my face. My knees began to feel weak.

The room began to spin. I felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to flee. I subtly tried to inch my way towards the exit, but the wedding guests formed an impenetrable barrier.

He made eye contact. I forced a smile, but I'm sure it looked more like a grimace. He started walking towards me, and I felt as if the entire world was pressing in on me. I 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