horrified - Story 65195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah felt a chill crawl up her spine. The teacher, Mr. Davies, with his booming laugh and habit of making students stand in the corner for the slightest infraction, was the same man who’d once given her a failing grade in algebra. This felt... wrong.

Her breath hitched. She could feel her pulse drumming a rapid tattoo against her eardrums. She found herself subconsciously straightening her back, adopting the posture of a chastised child.

Her own daughter was walking towards the classroom.

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