horrified - Story 65787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news punched him in the gut. He reread the address, his vision blurring. It was true. His childhood home. Up for sale. He felt an intense urge to… what? To run? To scream? He couldn’t even identify the emotion.

He clicked on the photos, a detached observer of his own history. He saw the changes, the renovations, the upgrades. It was like viewing a stranger’s life. His old life, now dissected and displayed.

He began to breathe shallowly, each inhale a struggle. He closed his eyes, replaying the memories, trying to cling to the fragments of his past. The images of his old life were beginning to fade, and he feared they would be gone completely.

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