horrified - Story 65713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt heavy in her hand, as if filled with lead. Sarah ripped it open, her fingers fumbling with the seal. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the sudden, oppressive silence of the room. The words on the page seemed to swim before her eyes, each syllable a blow. She stumbled backward, her legs suddenly weak, and leaned against the cold, unforgiving wall. Tears pricked at her eyes, blurring the already devastating text.

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