horrified - Story 65499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down Maya’s spine as she read the news article. Her water purification technology, a solution for villages without clean water, was already in use by a corporate giant. This person had built their dreams on her. She felt like someone had punched her in the gut. She gripped the cold metal table to remain standing.

Her carefully constructed plans evaporated like the morning mist. She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to regain control, but the world seemed to spin. She felt utterly helpless. Her throat closed up.

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