horrified - Story 65387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the farmer's market, the cheerful chatter of the vendors, felt aggressively cheerful. She recognised the same, perfectly chosen bouquet, the one he had given her last week. The woman, eyes wide with the same dawning realization, pointed to it, repeating the words he used. Her carefully constructed facade crumbled. A dizzying wave of disorientation swept over her, a feeling of the ground falling away beneath her feet. She gripped a nearby stall for support.

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