horrified - Story 65480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting anything. He’d been expecting his roommate to be home. The package was large and unmarked, addressed to a name he didn't know: "Elias Croft." The previous tenant, a man who had vanished without a word. Liam found himself wanting to push it away with his foot, and yet, he felt rooted to the floor.

He backed away, his gaze darting from the box to the shadows of the hallway. Each ticking of the clock felt like a hammer blow. He had to decide. Open the box? Or ignore it?

His hands were trembling as he considered the options.

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