horrified - Story 65177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But I thought…” Maria trailed off, her voice barely a whisper. She stared at the small, cluttered workshop. Her friend, Isabella, had always spoken so fondly of her successful art gallery. It was supposed to be in New York!

The hammering, the smell of turpentine, the dusty canvases… none of it matched the narrative she had been fed. The truth felt like a punch to the gut. She had even thought of investing in Isabella's 'gallery'.

She felt a wave of dizziness. She needed to sit down, so she did, sinking into a rickety stool. The room spun. The image of the sophisticated gallery faded away.

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