horrified - Story 65564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, a digital serpent slithering into her inbox. It was a mass message from Sarah. "Reminder: My party is THIS Saturday!" The words seemed to jump off the screen, mocking her. Saturday. The day of Emily's.

She felt a strange buzzing in her ears. Her vision blurred, the brightly lit office suddenly appearing dim and suffocating. She couldn’t seem to swallow, her throat constricted. She'd spent months organizing this, poured her heart and soul into every detail.

She quickly closed her laptop, her fingers fumbling with the screen’s edge, as if to ward off a physical threat. She felt a need to escape, to run, to find a place where this nightmare wasn't real.

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