horrified - Story 65066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words a dark stain against the bright screen. His stomach lurched, and a wave of dizziness threatened to overwhelm him. He’d poured his heart and soul into the application, convinced he was a shoo-in. Now, this… this negation of everything he’d worked towards.

His hands shook so violently he could barely hold his phone. He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to fight back the tears that threatened to spill. The world seemed to spin, the familiar surroundings of his dorm room shifting and blurring. He clawed at his chest, gasping for air as if something were crushing him.

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