horrified - Story 65566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The florist called, confirming the delivery of the centerpieces. Then, a text from Jessica: "So excited for Saturday!" She almost dropped the phone. Saturday. Same day as hers.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of the kitchen counter for support, her knuckles white. She’d meticulously sent out invitations, secured the venue, finalized the menu. And Sarah, her own best friend, was now competing with her.

She closed her eyes, trying to force the feeling down, to calm the chaotic thoughts swirling in her mind. Her carefully constructed plans threatened to unravel completely. She felt completely off-kilter, unbalanced.

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