horrified - Story 65445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world narrowed, focusing solely on the crumpled, familiar cover of her diary, clutched in Alex's hands. He was laughing, a sound that grated on her ears, a sound that felt alien and mocking. The words, the carefully chosen phrases, the emotions laid bare in ink, were now a source of amusement for him.

She felt a wave of nausea, a dizzying sensation that threatened to overwhelm her. Her jaw clenched, and a burning sensation filled her eyes. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to make him understand the magnitude of his transgression.

"Some pretty intense stuff in here, huh?" Alex said, his grin widening.

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