horrified - Story 65581 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe buzzed with Friday night chatter. Sarah gripped her lukewarm latte, the ceramic a cold comfort against her clammy palms. A familiar guitar intro filled the air, and her heart stuttered. It was *her* song, the one she’d poured her soul into during late-night writing sessions. The singer, a woman with a voice she didn't recognize, was butchering it. The melody was off-key, the tempo rushed, the raw emotion she’d carefully crafted was replaced with a sugary sweetness that made her stomach churn. Sarah wanted to scream, to run. Instead, she sat frozen, each note a fresh assault, the room closing in on her.

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