horrified - Story 65867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bouquet of lilies was beautiful, fragrant. Too beautiful. It was from Liam, a student who was obsessed with her. She knew that look, that unsettling intensity.

A card lay nestled among the blooms. "For always believing in me." Her hands trembled as she read the simple words. The lilies, normally a symbol of mourning, seemed to mock her. The air in the room felt heavy, and she could hardly breathe.

She tried to back away from the vase, but found herself unable to move. A feeling of dread, cold and absolute, washed over her. The fragrance of the lilies filled the room, a perfume of impending doom. She felt an overwhelming urge to flee, to escape the suffocating presence.

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