horrified - Story 65194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood drained from Michael's face. He felt a dizzying pressure in his head as he stared at the woman addressing the parent-teacher night. Mrs. Harrison. The same woman who, in his youth, had accused him of cheating on a spelling test. The accusation still burned.

His vision swam. He gripped the back of the chair in front of him, trying to steady himself. He needed to leave, to escape this bizarre reincarnation of his childhood tormentor.

He felt a frantic need to 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