horrified - Story 65924 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at precisely 3:00 PM. *Subject: Meeting Regarding Shared Medical Condition*. It was from a lawyer. He was instructed to meet with another client. Another client! The implications of this felt like a physical blow. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He’d meticulously constructed his life, a carefully crafted facade of normalcy.

He reread the email, each word a cruel jab. He slammed his laptop shut, the abruptness of the action a sudden, jarring release of the tension in his chest. His heart hammered against his ribs. He felt a desperate urge to obliterate the evidence of this correspondence, to rip the email from his life.

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