horrified - Story 65709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the icebreaker activity, "Two Truths and a Lie." He had to share, under the bright lights of the conference hall. "I spent my summers at Camp Willow Creek, I once won a pie-eating contest, and…" he hesitated. "And I have a black belt in karate.”

Across the room, Emily gasped, and her hand flew to her mouth. He noticed her, but he couldn't stop. He had to keep talking. He had to pretend.

He continued, his heart pounding in his chest. He knew the lie would be exposed. He knew the truth would be far worse. The air suddenly felt dense, the room spinning.

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