horrified - Story 65624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a deep sense of unease. Mr. Evans, his math teacher, had started watching his Snapchat stories. A pit formed in Daniel's stomach, twisting with a sense of impending doom. He slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the silence of his room.

He'd been posting those stupid, silly videos of himself, the ones where he tried to be funny. He'd even included his friends, and now he felt exposed. Did Mr. Evans think they were as moronic as they seemed?

His face flushed. He wanted to delete everything, to disappear.

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