horrified - Story 65258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The playbill. That was the thing that did it. The review, praising his script, was fine. The enthusiastic audience clapping was fine. It was all a triumph. The playbill, however, was not. John saw the playbill and he didn't recognize the name on the front.

He felt a sudden, suffocating pressure in his chest. His heart hammered against his ribs. He felt dizzy, lightheaded, as if the ground beneath him was shifting. He scanned the program, his eyes desperately searching for any mistake, any indication that he was in the wrong place. The name on the program was not his.

He wanted to scream.

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