horrified - Story 65246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure?” Clara asked, her voice wavering. She couldn’t seem to meet the doctor’s eyes. Her gaze darted around the room, as if seeking an escape route. She felt a tightening in her chest, a squeezing sensation that made it difficult to draw a full breath.

The world seemed to sharpen, the details of the room – the floral wallpaper, the framed diplomas – becoming almost painfully clear. Her heart beat like a trapped bird against her ribs. She pressed her hands against her mouth, a gesture of disbelief and something akin to a silent scream.

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