horrified - Story 65251 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification blinked, tauntingly. "Congratulations, Dr. Anya Sharma! Your groundbreaking research on the cognitive impact of bioluminescence has been published!" Anya's breath hitched. That was… her work. Her data, her analysis, her carefully crafted prose. She slammed her laptop shut. The room felt suddenly too small, the air thick with something acrid. Her hands were shaking as she pulled out her phone.

She needed to call someone. Her mentor, perhaps? No, not yet. Not until she knew the extent of the… this betrayal. She found the article online. The PDF opened, displaying the name: "Dr. Ethan Reed." Underneath, a familiar, meticulously crafted abstract. Anya felt a coldness creep into her chest, spreading like ice. She sat, frozen, staring at the screen.

Her stomach churned. The world blurred around the edges, everything shifting like a bad dream. She couldn't breathe.

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