horrified - Story 65808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courthouse lobby buzzed with activity, but for David, it was as if he were encased in a soundproof bubble. He was here to meet someone. Someone related to him by blood. A sister. His palms were slick with sweat.

He’d always thought he knew everything about his family. Now, there was a whole segment of his father's life he knew nothing about. He saw her then, standing near the water fountain, her face a mirror of his own, in a way. His stomach twisted. He couldn't speak, he couldn't move. He felt like he was drowning.

He turned and fled.

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