horrified - Story 65056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just browsing," Amelia muttered, her voice barely audible. She'd been pretending, really. Pretending to be interested in the tarnished trinkets and broken clocks. Then she saw it.

She felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat in the quiet shop. The ring. Her grandmother's ring. How? Why?

The air seemed thick, heavy with unspoken questions. Her hands started to shake. She imagined her grandmother, her gentle smile, the way she used to polish the ring with a soft cloth. Now, it was here, in this… this place.

She felt a wave of anger, followed by an overwhelming sense of… emptiness. She needed to sit down, to think, to understand.

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