horrified - Story 65426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David tossed the letter onto the passenger seat of his car, the sunlight glinting off the glossy paper. He slammed the car door a bit harder than necessary. He was on his way to a meeting, but his mind refused to cooperate.

He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles turned white. His mouth felt dry. He could feel a rising tide of anxiety, threatening to choke him. The meeting, the day, everything suddenly seemed insignificant compared to this.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to drive and drive and drive until he was lost. He considered turning the car around.

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