horrified - Story 65027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the drawing seemed to mock him. He stared, mesmerized, at the stick figure with the oversized, smiling mouth. The face was the same. The same chilling, wide-eyed gaze. He had to know if he was going insane. He had to ask his niece, Mia. He had to know where the thing in the picture originated.

"Mia," he said. He forced his voice to be light, easy. "Who drew this?"

Mia looked up from her game, her eyes alight. "Me! It's Sammy!"

His body went rigid. He took a step back, the world seeming to tilt on its axis. He struggled to take a breath.

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