horrified - Story 65305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and Sarah stepped out, feeling a tremor run through her. The meeting had been a disaster. The budget review had exposed the glaring inequality. She’d overheard a casual remark from her department head, a throwaway line about Liam's salary, and the implications had crashed over her. She gripped her bag, knuckles white. The air felt thick, heavy, difficult to breathe. This was wrong, unfair. Every step felt like wading through quicksand.

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