horrified - Story 65548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The account, a meticulously crafted lie. Her son, Ben, wasn’t the good student he pretended to be. His carefully constructed life online was the opposite of the life she thought she knew. Sarah felt a burning sensation in her chest.

She stood up abruptly, pacing the room, unable to contain the surge of energy. He had been so sly, so deceptive. She felt as though something had been stolen from her.

She had to know the truth. She marched toward Ben's room, her heart pounding in her chest.

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