horrified - Story 65297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The DJ was setting up his equipment, the disco ball hanging and ready to spin. He checked the time and then received the phone call. The voice on the other end gave the news with practiced detachment. The news was bad. He stood frozen, his eyes wide.

He slowly walked over to the corner, where all the colorful party items were stored. Streamers, confetti, everything was set up, only for nothing. He stared at the empty dance floor, the expectant space now a void.

He closed his eyes for a moment, and took a deep breath. His heart was a trapped bird, fluttering against his ribs. He felt a strong desire to run far away. He turned slowly and headed for the door.

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