horrified - Story 65807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived on a Tuesday, nestled among the bills and junk mail. Emily ripped it open without a second thought, the familiar ritual of her day. Then, she saw the words. A half-sister. From a previous relationship. Her breath hitched. The mundane routine of her life dissolved.

She read the letter twice, three times, each reading deepening the chasm of unease in her heart. She felt a physical pressure in her chest. A tightness. The world contracted. Her vision blurred. She crumpled the letter, and a fresh wave of nausea hit her.

She didn't know what to do.

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