horrified - Story 65009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had seen the artist, known the artist. He had even been to their studio and praised their work. Now, the image from his favorite painting was now permanently emblazoned on a stranger's shoulder. A stranger who now looked like a familiar face. It was the face of the artist's new friend, who had now betrayed him. He stammered, his words caught in his throat. He felt exposed, stripped bare. He excused himself and went outside, seeking the solace of the night air.

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