horrified - Story 65818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. He was going to the hospital for his appointment when he saw the nameplate on the office door: "Mr. Thompson, Licensed Therapist." His hands shook. The name sent a cold wave through him.

He knew. The realization slammed into him. The same sneering face, the same sharp voice that had mocked him for every perceived weakness. The same boy who’d left him broken on the school bus years ago. Now, a therapist.

He pressed the button for the ground floor, again and again. It wouldn't arrive fast enough.

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