horrified - Story 65563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no, no," Emily whispered, her voice barely audible above the rising panic. She reread the text message from Jessica. "Can't wait to see you at my party this Saturday!" Her own party was on that Saturday, too. The same Saturday as Jessica's.

A chill ran down her spine, making her shoulders hunch and her teeth chatter despite the warm afternoon sun. She sank onto the couch, her legs giving way. Had Jessica forgotten? Was this some cruel joke? The elaborate decorations, the caterer, the DJ – all that planning, all that money… and now, this.

She imagined the empty dance floor, the untouched buffet. The thought was a physical blow, stealing her breath, leaving her with a hollow ache 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