horrified - Story 65364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Happy Birthday!" the card shrieked at him, the cheerful font a cruel parody. Michael felt his blood run cold. He was alone. Usually. The mail carrier was gone. He quickly stepped into the house and quickly slammed the door behind him. He wasn't usually so aware of his isolation, but this…this was different.

His hand trembled as he reached for the card. The edges of the paper were slightly frayed, the corners bent as if handled repeatedly. An image of a clown's face, smiling too widely, stared back at him. He didn't move. He felt like his blood had turned to ice.

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