horrified - Story 65716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read the words again, slowly, painstakingly, as if understanding would somehow make them disappear. His breath hitched in his throat, and a cold wave washed over him, making him shiver despite the warm afternoon sun. He felt a creeping sense of paralysis, an inability to move or react. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles turning white, as if to anchor himself to reality. "This can't be happening," he whispered, the words barely audible.

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