horrified - Story 65983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened onto her floor, and Sarah nearly tripped. She stumbled, clutching the railing for support. Then she saw it. The elegant, professionally printed letter, neatly affixed to the wall next to the mailboxes. It was a beautiful announcement, but she felt a wave of cold rush through her as she read it.

Her apartment felt different as she walked through the doorway. It was her sanctuary, her safe haven. Suddenly, every crack in the walls seemed to widen, every creak in the floorboards a warning.

She dropped her keys on the table, the sound echoing unnaturally loud in the sudden, oppressive silence. Her vision blurred, and the world seemed to tilt. She felt sick to her stomach, and she couldn't stop the tears from welling in her eyes.

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