horrified - Story 65202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She clawed at the air, her knuckles white. The asphalt in her driveway stared back at her, a vast, unblemished expanse where her beloved Mini Cooper should have been. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. A wave of nausea rolled over her, and she had to lean against the cold brick of her house for support. "This can't be happening," she whispered, her voice trembling, almost breaking. Her palms were sweating, and she felt a desperate urge to run, to hide.

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