horrified - Story 65050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been sleeping well since the permits went up. The thought of change, of the alteration, gave him a dull ache behind his eyes. He sat on his porch swing, watching the demolition. The sight made his stomach churn.

He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten, his hands clenching into fists. The house looked like it was being slowly eviscerated. He got to his feet and walked inside, unable to watch any longer.

He wanted to scream, to lash out. The tranquility of his life, his precious peace, was being destroyed. He felt the familiar weight of dread settling in his chest, suffocating him. He was losing his home.

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