horrified - Story 65420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty gallery echoed with an unsettling quiet. Ava felt a prickling sensation on her skin, as if unseen eyes were watching her. She'd found the wallet by the entrance, by the benches.

Her stomach lurched. The money. It was obscene. She felt a burning need to... to flee. She had to get out.

She spun around, scanning the room. The art on the walls seemed to sneer, the colors to bleed. She backed towards the exit, her hand clamped tight around the leather. This whole thing felt like some kind of a bad omen.

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