horrified - Story 65718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit her like a physical blow. The eviction notice, crisp and official, lay on the worn wooden table, a stark contrast to the faded paint and the chipped mugs. Her body became rigid, frozen in place. Her breathing became shallow and rapid, each inhale a struggle. She wanted to scream, to weep, to tear the paper into shreds, to make it all disappear, but she could only stand there, paralyzed by the weight of the moment.

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