horrified - Story 65029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the doctor's note, which was clutched tightly in his fist. “Unexplained anxiety.” The drawings. The recurring nightmares. He knew what caused the panic. His childhood imaginary friend. The thing he thought he had escaped.

His niece, Clara, had been drawing him again. The drawings were scattered throughout the house. He felt the walls of his mind closing in, threatening to suffocate him. The world seemed to blur.

He had to protect Clara. He had to protect himself.

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