horrified - Story 65208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My knees buckled. I sank to the ground, the cold concrete a poor substitute for the comfort I craved. The familiar smell of freshly cut grass, usually so soothing, now felt like a cruel mockery. I squeezed my eyes shut, willing the scene to disappear, to rewind, to change. When I opened them, the empty spot was still there, a monument to the unexpected. A wave of dizziness washed over me, and I felt as though I might faint.

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