horrified - Story 65143 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He… he just *left*?" Sarah stammered, her voice thin, almost lost in the echoing silence of the lab. Dr. Evans, her mentor, her lifeline, had simply vanished. His equipment was packed neatly, his notes gone, leaving an unsettling emptiness. A cold sweat slicked her skin. Her hands felt clumsy, useless. She fumbled with the pipette, dropping it with a clatter. The sound amplified the hollowness inside her, a vast emptiness that threatened to consume her.

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