horrified - Story 65010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, chaotic strokes of her signature style were now a permanent fixture on someone else's skin. A young woman, strolling past the coffee shop, had her leg on display. Her stomach churned. The artist, Martha, felt a profound disconnect, as if something vital had been wrenched away. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles white, her breath shallow and uneven. She couldn't meet the woman's eyes.

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