horrified - Story 65587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The busker on the street corner was playing a familiar tune. David stopped, his steps faltering. It was his song, the one he had written during a dark period of his life. The man was playing it with a jaunty, cheerful energy that felt utterly inappropriate, like a mockery. David felt his throat tighten, a knot forming in his chest. He wanted to confront the man, to demand he stop, but he couldn't move, his feet rooted to the pavement, the happy notes grating on his ears.

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