horrified - Story 65148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the signed resignation letter, the ink of his mentor, Mr. Chen, still fresh on the page. His name was missing from the “thank you” list. No acknowledgment. No congratulations. Just a blank space where his name should have been. A coldness spread through his veins, numbing his senses. He felt a strange disconnect, as though he were an observer watching someone else's misfortune. He crumpled the paper in his fist, a futile gesture of defiance.

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