horrified - Story 65370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't had a birthday in years. Not a real one. Not since…well, since it had happened. He stared at the card. The cheerful design. The bold lettering. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him ashen.

Inside, the message was simple: "Happy birthday, old friend." A single, meticulously drawn daisy graced the page beneath the words. He slowly crumpled the card in his fist. He was trapped. He was certain of it.

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