horrified - Story 65338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waitress placed the check on the table, and the restaurant’s closing notice was tucked underneath. "La Tavola Rustica," the message said, "will be closing next month." He stared at it, his face flushing. He felt a stinging behind his eyes.

He’d brought all his dates here; this was where he celebrated every good occasion. Where would he go now? The thought was unbearable. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands.

He felt a deep, aching void begin to expand within him. He took a sip of water, but it did nothing to quench the dryness in his mouth.

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