horrified - Story 65820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The memory hit her as a cold wave. Standing in the grocery store, she almost bumped into him. Her. Childhood bully. Now a therapist. His hair was different, a little gray crept in, but his eyes were the same. The same way he had of assessing and judging.

Her body froze. She dropped her shopping basket, the contents scattering across the floor. She could feel every judgmental look from the other shoppers. And she stood, unable to speak, to move, to react as he looked at her with a gentle smile. She wanted nothing more than to disappear.

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