horrified - Story 65233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on Sarah's phone – "Your blog post has received 500 new comments!" Her hands froze, and she clicked on the link. Her blood ran cold. It wasn't her latest recipe, or her travelogue; it was her old diary, scanned and uploaded without her permission.

She slumped in her chair, the air seeming to rush out of her lungs. Her fingers started to tingle. The room spun slightly. She couldn't believe it. The sheer brazenness of it.

She squeezed her eyes shut, wishing, praying, that it would all vanish. But the glowing screen remained, a mocking reminder of her exposed vulnerability.

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