horrified - Story 65645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The CEO's announcement, broadcast across the company, felt like a punch to the gut. Emily’s hands started to tremble, and she felt a desperate urge to run, to escape this room, this building, this reality. The familiar scent of her favorite perfume, usually a comfort, now felt cloying and oppressive.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the details, the implications. She wanted to burrow underground and disappear. It was like her whole world was suddenly crumbling around her.

She bit her lip, tasting blood.

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