horrified - Story 65595 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His hands trembled as he reread the email, each word a cruel reminder of his perceived inadequacies. He felt a deep, almost physical, embarrassment, as if he’d been caught naked in public. He wanted to tear the letter to shreds, to erase the very existence of his novel. He got up from his chair and began to pace the floor, his frustration mounting with each circuit of the room. He felt a cold dread wrapping around his heart.

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