horrified - Story 65869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a handmade quilt, meticulously stitched, depicting scenes from her life. Her house, her car, her favorite coffee shop. It was from Jacob, the student who always watched her. She felt a shiver crawl up her spine.

She ran her fingers across the fabric. Each stitch was perfect, each detail precise. A note accompanied the quilt, but she couldn't bring herself to read it.

She felt a wave of dizziness, and she felt the blood drain from her face. She tried to pull the quilt from her grasp, but her fingers were frozen. She stumbled backward, as if to escape the intricate pattern and the implied message.

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