horrified - Story 65340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into "The Spice Route" for what he thought would be a celebratory meal. He had gotten a promotion. A large, garish sign announced the closure. A wave of dizziness washed over him.

He felt his smile falter, replaced by a grimace. He felt his pulse quicken. He felt that the world had turned upside down. This place was his therapy after a long day at the office.

He stood frozen, his feet rooted to the spot. The restaurant's vibrant colors seemed to dim before his eyes. He slowly turned and walked out, the world now gray and lifeless.

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