horrified - Story 65309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He choked back a laugh, a sound that felt brittle and strained. The information – delivered during a casual water cooler conversation – had hit him like a physical blow. The new guy, with less experience, a less demanding workload, was making more. A coldness settled in his stomach, spreading through his limbs. He ran a hand through his hair, feeling the sweat slick his forehead. He found himself staring blankly at the computer screen, the words on the document refusing to register.

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