horrified - Story 65193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Abernathy?" Emily's voice cracked, and she felt her cheeks flush with heat. The man, with his perpetually squinting eyes and penchant for awkward silences, barely glanced up from his grading. Thirty years, and he still looked exactly the same. The same tweed jacket, the same fraying elbow patches.

She found herself backing away slowly, as if she were confronting a dangerous animal. The hallway seemed to shrink, the bright fluorescent lights suddenly too harsh.

"Is everything alright, Emily?" he asked, his voice a gravelly echo of her past.

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