horrified - Story 65623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with a digital thud, a hollow echo in Amelia's chest. Ms. Rodriguez, her biology teacher, had liked her latest TikTok. A sudden sense of dread washed over her, and she nearly choked on the air she was attempting to swallow. Every muscle in her body tensed.

Her carefully curated online persona felt violated. She hadn't even thought about the possibility of her teachers seeing her content. Now, the harmless dances and silly skits felt mortifying. The room began to spin.

She grabbed the edge of her desk to steady herself, the wood cold against her clammy palms.

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