horrified - Story 65660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the phone, as if it were a venomous snake. His palms were slick. He’d meant to text his friend, asking about the big game. Instead, the message went to his girlfriend's dad: "I'm not sure I'm good enough for her." He closed his eyes, imagining the disappointment, the disapproval. He imagined the interrogation, the long, awkward silences. He wanted to throw up. He felt completely undone.

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