horrified - Story 65819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s office was filled with sunlight. Outside, children were playing in a park. It was ironic. He stared at the name on the door: "Mr. Carter, Clinical Psychologist." The man who’d once terrorized him on those very playgrounds.

He had a session in ten minutes. His mouth went dry. He felt a surge of adrenaline, but he forced himself to breathe. He looked at the door. He didn’t want to walk in, but he knew he must.

His hands shook as he lifted his arm to knock.

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