horrified - Story 65429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes widened as she held the invitation. It was as if it was a cursed object. The past, a relentless, judgmental monster, was calling. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach.

She backed away from the table, as though the paper might reach out and grab her. She needed space, air, an escape. She walked to her bedroom and slammed the door.

She sat on the edge of the bed, feeling the weight of the years, the regrets, the perceived failures. She felt suddenly, and acutely, alone.

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