horrified - Story 65880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. Then, the screen flickered to life. The animated sequences, his secret project, played to a bewildered, but appreciative audience. Ethan watched in a state of paralysis.

He’d always kept his animations private, a world built for himself. The music swelled, the colors pulsed, and he felt his body grow cold.

He wanted to run. He wanted to rewind time, to erase this from existence. He clenched his fists, the nails digging into his palms. He couldn't speak, he couldn't move. He felt like he was being torn apart.

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