horrified - Story 65571 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the coffee shop, mirroring the storm brewing inside Amelia. Across the small table, Liam, her Liam, laughed at something the woman next to him had said. Amelia had rehearsed this moment for weeks, the casual "Hey, Liam, remember me? Amelia?" The words, now, seemed to stick in her throat, a lump of cotton wool.

Her hand trembled as she lifted her latte. Liam looked at her, his smile faltering. "Sorry, do I know you?" he asked, a polite question, a stranger's question.

Amelia’s cheeks burned. She wanted to disappear, to melt into the floral wallpaper. She stammered, "Amelia… Amelia Hayes? We… we were always together? You used to call me 'Amy-Boo'?" The woman next to him subtly raised an eyebrow. Liam's brow furrowed, a flicker of confusion crossing his face.

He shook his head slowly. "Doesn't ring a bell." A cold dread coiled in her stomach.

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