horrified - Story 65369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd been expecting a postcard from her sister. Instead, there was this. A flimsy card, the cover depicting a whimsical cat wearing a party hat. Emily took a step back. She found herself clutching the card close to her chest.

The inside was a single sentence: "We know where you live." Her vision swam. Her ears rang. She needed to sit down. The world tilted on its axis. She suddenly felt an intense, overwhelming urge to protect her family.

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