horrified - Story 65607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old film reel coughed and sputtered, throwing images onto the wall. Thomas saw his grandfather, a man renowned for his piety, in a boxing ring, pummeling his opponent with vicious intent. His jaw dropped. The stories he'd heard of a gentle soul, of a life dedicated to the church, were now replaced by the brutal reality before his eyes.

A wave of nausea washed over him. The air seemed to vibrate with a discordant energy, a jarring dissonance between the image and the stories. He instinctively recoiled, as if burned. He felt a desperate urge to erase the image, to rewind the film and pretend he hadn't seen it.

His head swam. The world had shifted, its colors suddenly wrong.

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