horrified - Story 65594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," she whispered, the word barely audible. The email's closing line, a polite brush-off, felt like a deliberate blow. She’d spent five years building towards this moment, sacrificing everything. She sat frozen, paralyzed, her fingers clenched so tightly her knuckles were white. Her vision blurred, and the expensive framed print of her favorite author's book on her wall seemed to mock her. The silence in the room was deafening.

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