horrified - Story 65028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the art room thickened with a strange, unpleasant energy. Marcus watched, paralyzed, as his nephew, Ben, proudly presented a new drawing. The image, a distorted caricature, struck a chord of revulsion.

He felt an overwhelming need to scream, to run. His mouth was open, the sound stuck in his throat.

"That's Sammy, Uncle Marcus!" Ben chirped, his eyes sparkling with delight. "He likes to play with me."

Marcus stumbled back, feeling as though the room was closing in on him.

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