horrified - Story 65599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the cursor blinking mockingly, as if it was laughing at him. He felt as though something heavy had settled on his shoulders, weighing him down. He had imagined this moment so many times, but never like this. His dream publisher, the one he had spent his life striving to impress, had found his work lacking. He pushed himself away from the desk and stared, listlessly, out the window, his entire existence suddenly feeling pointless.

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