horrified - Story 65026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Uncle David, can Sammy come over and play?” The innocent question, delivered with a bright smile, felt like a physical blow. Sarah's stomach flipped. She looked at her nephew, Leo, and saw the same eager look she once wore. The same longing.

Her knuckles were white from clenching her fists. Sammy. She hadn't thought about him in decades, not since she’d locked him away in the attic of her mind.

“No, Leo,” Sarah replied, her voice strained. “Sammy can’t come over.” She forced a smile, but the expression felt unnatural, and she quickly turned away.

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