horrified - Story 65192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over Daniel. He’d just picked up Leo from his first day of second grade, a bright-eyed, enthusiastic little boy. Then, Ms. Peterson, a woman with a voice like nails on a chalkboard and a gaze that could curdle milk, had emerged from the classroom. The name tag confirmed it. *Ms. Peterson*. His Ms. Peterson.

He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles whitened. His throat constricted as if an invisible hand was squeezing it. He could barely muster a weak smile for Leo's excited chatter about playground equipment.

"That's…that's great, buddy," Daniel managed to croak out.

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