horrified - Story 65968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was on a ripped piece of paper, found in the back pocket of a pair of jeans. "Become a chef," it read, bold and assertive. He was struck dumb. He knew her, thought he knew her, and it was wrong. "Go backpacking through Southeast Asia." "Learn to speak Mandarin." Each word was a punch.

He sat down heavily on the floor, the cold tile a shock against his skin. He couldn't breathe. He felt a sudden, urgent need to understand, to unravel the mystery that had suddenly presented itself. He wanted to scream.

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