horrified - Story 65334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in the inbox, stark and unwelcome. "Important Announcement Regarding The Golden Spoon Diner." David stared at the screen, unable to process the words. He felt his face flush.

He pressed his lips together, his jaw muscles tight. His fingers tapped a frantic rhythm against the desk. He reread the message, the words now blurring before his eyes.

The diner was more than just a place to eat; it was a relic of his childhood. The thought of losing it made his vision swim, and he had to take a few deep, shuddering breaths to regain his composure. He felt a need to collapse.

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