horrified - Story 65249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room seemed to shrink around him. Thomas felt a prickling sensation on his skin, his muscles tensing involuntarily. He looked at the paperwork, then looked away, unable to process the contents. His hands clenched into fists.

He closed his eyes and breathed deeply, trying to calm the storm raging inside him. He felt exposed, vulnerable, as if the very foundations of his life had been undermined. He wanted to scream. He wanted to disappear. He felt a profound sense of loss.

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