horrified - Story 65504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, and David’s blood ran cold. He knew, he just *knew*, what it would be. The subject line: “Your lawn.” He closed his eyes, bracing himself. His hands trembled as he opened it. Attached was a photo.

His breath escaped him in a ragged sigh. The photo showed the dog, happily cavorting amidst his perfectly manicured lawn, a fluffy, white cloud of destruction against the green. He felt a cold dread creep into his bones. His perfectly sculpted Japanese garden. Ruined.

He felt a deep sense of wrongness, as though something vital had been ripped away from him.

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