horrified - Story 65804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office was sterile, the air conditioning a biting chill against Leo's damp skin. He’d never considered such a scenario. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't known he possessed. This woman, this *sister*, was a complete stranger, yet she was now inextricably linked to his life.

He was silent as the lawyer explained the will, the shared inheritance. The lawyer's words seemed far away, muffled. It was the presence of a stranger, a woman with his father's eyes, that truly affected Leo. He felt a creeping disquiet, an invasion. He focused on the patterns of the carpet to avoid her gaze.

As she spoke, Leo felt a profound unease begin to bloom in his chest. A hollowness.

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