horrified - Story 65427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation crackled in Susan's hand as she opened it. The gold lettering felt heavy, accusing. She sank onto the couch, the air suddenly charged with an uncomfortable tension. It was like a physical blow.

She tried to take a deep breath, but her lungs felt constricted. A wave of nausea rolled over her. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the flood of memories, the judgments, the anxieties.

She wished she could rewind time, change everything. But she couldn't. All she could do was decide.

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