horrified - Story 65479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old Victorian house creaked around him as he stared at the package. It had arrived earlier that day. Addressed to “Ms. Eleanor Vance," the name of the woman who had lived here decades before. Amelia had always felt a strange pull to the house, but now, the feeling shifted.

He wanted to throw the package away. Burn it. Do anything to get rid of it. But he couldn't. He couldn't shake the feeling of something heavy, something sinister.

He took a deep breath, and he brought a hammer down on the package. The wood splintered. He could hear it crack.

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