horrified - Story 65589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was wandering through a bustling marketplace when he heard it. The faint sound of *his* song, drifting from a nearby stall. He stopped, his breath catching. A street performer was using it, and butchering it. The melody was warped, the rhythm was off, and the lyrics were almost unrecognizable. He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. He wanted to shout, to object, to get away. But he was frozen in place, the sounds of his creation, twisted and abused, ringing in 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