horrified - Story 65705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, displayed on Emily's desk, was a smiling collage from a hiking trip. “That’s me, age 12, at Camp Greenwood!” she said, gesturing toward it. Across the desk, Brian, her new intern, froze.

His eyes widened, and a strange, choked sound escaped his lips. The photo showed the iconic, giant, carved wooden bear, the bear that always made Emily think of the disastrous talent show performance.

“Greenwood, huh?” he croaked, his voice cracking. He swallowed hard. The bear in the photo seemed to leer at him. He knew exactly which talent show she was talking about. He could still hear the off-key rendition of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ to this day.

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