horrified - Story 65022 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the sketchbook shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent house. The artwork. It was Lily's, of course. Another drawing of that… thing. The way its smile stretched unnaturally across its face was enough to cause the hairs on the back of his neck to stand on end. He felt a wave of nausea.

He had buried *him*. Buried him in the recesses of his mind. And now… it was all resurfacing. He paced the living room, his heart hammering against his ribs. He needed air. The house felt like a trap.

"Lily!" he shouted, his voice cracking. "Where are you?" He had to see her. He had to know…

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