horrified - Story 65254 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview was supposed to be a triumph. Sarah, ready to discuss her latest invention - a revolutionary solar panel. When the interviewer introduced her, she heard her name...but it wasn't her name. He was praising Dr. Evelyn Hayes. Sarah's world spun. The interviewer turned to her, smiling, and asked a question about the 'innovative' panels.

Her throat constricted, rendering her voiceless. Her hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into her palms. The studio lights seemed too bright, the air too thin. All she could do was stare at the supposed 'doctor,' her face a mask of silent shock.

She forced a smile, knowing she needed to get out of there.

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