horrified - Story 65627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. James's physics teacher, Ms. Chen, had favorited one of his old tweets, a meme he'd posted months ago. He felt a chilling sensation seep into his bones, rendering him immobile. His cheeks grew hot, his vision swam.

He'd made some jokes about the school, and about physics, that he now regretted. The thought of her reading his online ramblings turned his stomach.

He scrambled to delete the tweet, but it was already too late. He felt a profound sense of shame.

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