horrified - Story 65668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air was making Claire feel lightheaded. She was trapped with Robert. Her pulse quickened. She struggled for breath. The walls seemed to be closing in, the already small space shrinking with every passing moment.

She focused on Robert. He was visibly rattled. She couldn't blame him. She fought to suppress the rising panic that threatened to overwhelm her. The metallic tang of fear filled her mouth.

She started to pace, a frantic motion that achieved nothing but amplifying her distress. She needed to escape. She needed to be free. The thought of being stuck here for hours was almost unbearable.

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