horrified - Story 65059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the door, a tinkling sound, made Leo jump. He didn't want to be here, but his curiosity had led him in. He wasn't looking for anything, and then... he saw it.

He froze, rooted to the spot. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. The ring. His grandmother’s engagement ring. The one that disappeared after the break-in.

He felt a surge of… something akin to panic. His hands clenched into fists. He had to breathe, to calm down. The shop owner, a burly man with a bored expression, eyed him with a flicker of interest.

He wanted to scream, to smash the glass, to take the ring and run. But he stood there, paralyzed, his throat constricted. He couldn’t move.

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