horrified - Story 65396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been looking forward to the weekend, a quiet escape with a good book. Now, Michael couldn't breathe. The letter was a detailed account of a conspiracy, woven into the pages of a forgotten history book. The names listed, the dates, the intricate web of lies… it was all too much. He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. He wanted to shout, to tear the letter into shreds, but he felt rooted to the spot, his muscles rigid, his mind racing to process the enormity of what he'd just read.

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