horrified - Story 65817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room seemed to amplify the tick-tock of the clock on the wall. Each second felt like an hour. Sarah clutched her purse, her fingers digging into the worn leather. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm.

She closed her eyes, trying to conjure a safe place, a memory where she felt secure. But all she could see was his face, leering at her from the other side of the playground fence, his voice sneering the cruel words that had haunted her for years.

The receptionist called her name. Sarah jumped, her eyes snapping open. She felt the urge to cry.

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