horrified - Story 65830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d known, of course, that another company was also working on a new VR gaming experience. But to see the trailer, the exact same concepts, gameplay, and characters… it was too much. His stomach lurched, and he felt a pressure building behind his eyes. He slowly closed his laptop, and the screen reflected his pale, drawn face. He buried his head in his hands, unable to process the situation.

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