horrified - Story 65744 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crash sounded like the end of the world. Michael froze mid-stride, his grocery bags tumbling from his grasp, spilling cans of soup and cereal onto the pavement. He couldn't move. He couldn't breathe.

The gnarled old elm had given way, obliterating the Smith's sunroom and leaving a gaping wound in their roof. Debris littered the street. A small dog yelped, its high-pitched cry piercing the stillness.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to run, to escape the scene of absolute chaos. His legs wouldn't obey. His stomach lurched, threatening to betray him. He stood 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