horrified - Story 65237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's waiting room was stifling, the air thick with the smell of antiseptic. Emma, scrolling idly on her phone, froze. There, on a blog dedicated to "nostalgic finds," was the diary she’d meticulously decorated, the one detailing her angst-ridden summer after high school.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped the armrest of the chair, her knuckles white. She couldn’t seem to catch her breath.

She scanned the room, suddenly conscious of every pair of eyes. Were they looking at her? Did they know? She couldn't shake the feeling of being watched.

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