horrified - Story 65593 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world swam. The rejection letter was like a black hole, sucking the light out of everything. She felt the urge to hide, to vanish. The walls of her apartment seemed to be closing in, suffocating her. Her meticulously organized desk, usually a source of comfort, now represented only failure. She pushed back her chair, scraping it against the floor, and buried her face in her hands, her breath coming in ragged gasps. The very air felt heavy, dense.

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