horrified - Story 65199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt his pulse quicken as he read the welcome letter. "Mrs. Evans." It couldn’t be. Not the Mrs. Evans who had ridiculed his handwriting and shamed him in front of the class.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He felt a prickle of sweat on his forehead. This was a cosmic injustice. He pictured his daughter, smiling and innocent, and a wave of protectiveness washed over him, mixed with a profound sense of helplessness.

He could barely keep himself together.

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