horrified - Story 65128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air in the terminal felt thick, suffocating. He leaned against a pillar, his body trembling, as the gravity of the situation sank in. His best friend's funeral. He was supposed to be there, to offer support, to share memories, to say goodbye.

He ran his hand over his face, as the implications crashed over him. Each delayed minute was a betrayal, a final, cruel twist of fate. The grief he'd been holding back threatened to overwhelm him. He could almost feel his friend’s empty seat, a symbol of their friendship, forever vacant.

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