horrified - Story 65939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The roses arrived just as the news broke on the radio. A wave of nausea rose in his stomach, sour and bitter. It was too much. The timing was too perfect.

He hadn't felt this way in a long time. Trapped. Targeted. Every nerve in his body was screaming. This was the end of his life as he knew it. He closed his eyes.

He needed to get out. He had to be gone. He had to vanish. He grabbed his coat, his hands shaking so violently he could hardly manage the buttons.

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