horrified - Story 65357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She poked her head into the dusty space, planning to quickly check for leaks. The first thing she saw was a child's mobile, its tiny figures hanging in the stale air. Then, she saw the drawings.

Crayon figures, crudely drawn, depicting scenes that made her skin crawl. Houses with strange angles, figures with empty eyes. She backed away slowly, her eyes wide.

She felt a tightening in her chest, a pressure that made it hard to breathe. The air in the attic was suddenly thick with an unspoken, chilling presence. She turned and fled, desperate to escape.

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