horrified - Story 65895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s voice, explaining the exam results, faded into a distant hum. Sarah's focus narrowed to the single, glaring letter on her paper. An overwhelming sense of unreality enveloped her. She felt detached, as if observing a scene from a great distance. Her jaw clenched, and she could feel the muscles in her neck tighten. She tried to swallow, but her throat felt constricted. The world around her seemed to spin.

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