horrified - Story 65748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was suddenly filled with the scent of damp earth and freshly broken wood. Maria’s breath caught in her throat. Her world narrowed to the sight of the giant redwood sprawling across Mr. Garcia’s garden.

The redwood was gone. It had fallen on the freshly planted vegetable garden. Her heart hammered against her ribs.

She felt a wave of nausea. She needed to sit down, needed to get away from this scene. The ground beneath her felt unsteady.

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