horrified - Story 65823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But… how?" Sarah stammered, her voice a thin thread barely audible above the hum of the server room. The coding, the specific algorithms, the entire framework of her groundbreaking AI project was right there, staring back at her on the rival company's website. Her palms were slick with sweat, and a prickly sensation crawled up the back of her neck. The room seemed to shrink, the air growing thick and suffocating. She swallowed hard, struggling to maintain composure.

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