horrified - Story 65054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the door jingled, and Emily jumped. The woman behind the counter, her face lined and tired, didn't look up from her crossword puzzle. Emily scanned the cases, searching for... what? She didn't know. Then, the glint.

Her breath caught in her chest. A wave of ice flooded through her veins. It was the ring. Her grandfather’s, given to her grandmother on their wedding day. Gone for years.

She felt a tremor run through her. The woman, oblivious, finally looked up, her gaze flat. “You interested in something, honey?”

Emily couldn't speak. She could only stare. The injustice, the violation… it was too much. She pressed her lips together, her mind racing. What had happened? How had it ended up here?

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