horrified - Story 65359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust motes danced in the single shaft of sunlight that pierced the gloom. He rummaged through a trunk, finding old clothes, forgotten toys, and then... a small wooden box. It was intricately carved and sealed with a strange symbol.

His hand trembled as he reached for it. He felt an intense wave of foreboding. He knew he should leave it alone. He opened it anyway.

Inside, he found a single, tarnished key. He didn't know what it unlocked, but he felt an overwhelming, primal fear of finding out. He slammed the lid shut. He wanted it gone.

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