horrified - Story 65236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it while browsing a genealogy website. The name, the date, the handwriting – it was undeniably his diary. Each page had been scanned and was open for all to read. Even the embarrassing drawings.

He slammed his fist on the table, making his coffee mug jump. His face contorted in a grimace. He felt an overwhelming urge to destroy the source of his torment.

He sat back in his chair, trying to breathe slowly. The fury he felt was all consuming. He felt as though the very air around him was now tainted.

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