horrified - Story 65036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words, each line a sharp stab. The book chronicled his career, the successes and the failures, but with a narrative that felt alien, manufactured. He felt a profound sense of unease, a chill that spread through his entire body. The author had interviewed people, compiled facts, fabricated a story he didn't recognize.

He pushed the book away, his hands shaking. He felt like he was drowning, the lies suffocating him. He leaned back in his chair, feeling utterly lost and bewildered, the room starting 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