horrified - Story 65399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The used cookbook was supposed to inspire culinary creativity. Instead, Lisa found a series of hastily scribbled notes tucked inside, detailing a recipe for poison, and instructions for delivery. Her blood turned to ice. She dropped the book as if it had burned her. Her vision blurred, and the world seemed to spin around her. The innocent image of the cookbook's cover, a cheerful illustration of a fruit tart, was now tainted, grotesque.

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