horrified - Story 65463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty attic, usually a haven of forgotten treasures, suddenly felt suffocating. My brother, with a forced cheerfulness that grated on my nerves, held up the tarnished silver candlesticks. They had lit every Christmas dinner, every birthday cake. They were a tangible link to my childhood.

"Gotta make some space, right?" he said, avoiding my eyes. My stomach churned.

I felt a wave of nausea wash over me. My vision swam. He was going to *sell* them? The thought was a physical blow. I could only manage a strangled, "Why?"

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