horrified - Story 65945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock blinked: 3:17 AM. Sarah couldn't sleep. She sat upright in bed, the glow of the laptop illuminating her face. The words, his words, kept replaying in her mind. “The Shadow of Eleanor.”

The character based on her was… well, she was the antagonist. Cruel. Scheming. Driven by selfish ambition. The depiction was so far removed from who she believed herself to be, who she *knew* herself to be, and yet… there were echoes of truth, vulnerabilities that she'd shared in hushed tones.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She got out of bed, her legs shaky. She wandered the hallway, the silence amplifying the frantic beating of her heart.

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