horrified - Story 65824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The press conference was a disaster. As Liam listened to his former colleague, now his main rival, unveil “Project Phoenix,” his meticulously crafted marketing strategy, his carefully chosen tagline, he felt an icy grip tighten around his chest. The words, the imagery, the entire theatrical performance – every element was a copy of his own plans. He felt a sudden, profound need to escape, to disappear. His cheeks burned, and he could barely bring himself to meet anyone's gaze.

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