horrified - Story 65826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The board approved… your… your project proposal, Mr. Davies?" The CEO's voice cracked. John, seated across the large mahogany table, could only nod mutely. The proposal, his proposal, was now identical to the one he had just read, presented by the man sitting across from him. His fingers felt numb, and a buzzing started in his ears. The room grew loud, the sound a roaring, oppressive clamor.

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