horrified - Story 65999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The annual alumni gala. The university president was giving a speech and the big screen behind him had a slideshow of "Success Stories." There it was. His essay.

John felt the floor shift under his feet. His essay, the story of his near failure on a school project, was there. He remembered the feeling of failure. It was back now.

He felt a hot flush crawl up his neck. He wanted to sink into the ornate carpet. He felt a rising tide of shame.

He tried to focus on his champagne flute, and the meaningless chatter of the people around him. He felt his hands begin to shake. The president was pointing to the screen. John felt that everyone was looking at him.

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