horrified - Story 65209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the empty patch of concrete, his breath catching in his throat. It was as if a part of him had been ripped away, leaving a gaping void. He felt a dizzying pressure in his head. The air around him seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. He wanted to shout, to lash out, but his voice was trapped, lodged somewhere in his constricted throat. He felt exposed, vulnerable, utterly alone.

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