horrified - Story 65097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house, with its floral wallpaper and the scent of lemon-scented cleaning products, felt alien to him. The meticulously organized spice rack in the kitchen, a testament to his mother's control, sent a wave of nausea through him. He couldn’t look her in the eye.

He watched his father, a man who rarely spoke, methodically wash the dishes. The methodical, repetitive motions felt like a sentence, a punishment. He pictured the future: the forced family dinners, the constant questioning, the suffocating routine.

He felt a primal urge to scream, to lash out. He clenched his fists, forcing himself to remain calm. This was temporary, he told himself. Just temporary.

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