horrified - Story 65814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in her inbox. A reminder for her session. From *him*. The subject line: "Therapy Appointment Reminder." Her stomach lurched. She scrolled through the email again, her eyes darting around the words. The casual tone, the professional sign-off. Everything about it felt… wrong.

She wanted to delete it, block the email address, pretend it never happened. But she couldn't. She needed help, and she didn't know who else to turn to.

The walls began to close in. She tried to swallow but there wasn't enough saliva. She stared at the screen, a silent scream building in her throat.

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