horrified - Story 65628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom clock ticked, each second a hammer blow. Emily stared at her phone screen; Ms. Davis, her chemistry teacher, had requested to follow her on Instagram. Her hands started to tremble uncontrollably.

She imagined Ms. Davis seeing all her makeup tutorials, her casual pictures. She wanted to scream. She felt as though she was being observed. She felt vulnerable.

She buried her face in her hands, her breath catching in her throat.

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