horrified - Story 65268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team photo shoot was scheduled for tomorrow. Sarah kept staring at the email, the words replaying themselves in her mind. “Due to the high number of applicants…” Her eyes stung. She walked to the bathroom and splashed cold water on her face. Her reflection stared back at her, a stranger.

Her throat ached. She felt a burning sensation in her chest that felt like it would never disappear. The image of the team, posing and smiling, flashed in her mind. She started to fidget, unable to sit still. She paced the living room, her steps quick and erratic, and bit her lip.

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