horrified - Story 65145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist’s studio was silent. Empty. The scent of turpentine, once so familiar and comforting, now felt acrid, unsettling. The easel stood bare, a mocking monument to abandonment. Michael, his protégé, felt a chilling premonition as he walked through the threshold. He had expected to see Maestro Giovanni sketching, or at least have one of his canvases in the midst of progress. There wasn't even a trace of him. A wave of nausea rolled over him. He staggered back, his legs nearly giving way.

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