horrified - Story 65658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood drained from Leo’s face. He’d been complaining about his neighbor, Mrs. Gable, to his friend. Instead of going to his friend, it went to Mrs. Gable herself. His hand flew to his mouth to stifle the groan that escaped. He could almost hear her, the sharp tone, the disapproval. He knew he'd have to face her. His feet felt heavy, rooted to the spot.

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