disgusted - Story 29006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Look at this!” The text message blared, accompanied by a photo. It was his piece, his painstakingly crafted “Serpent's Kiss” design. The photo showed it on someone’s upper arm, complete with a poorly-executed flourish around it. His stomach churned.

He dropped his phone onto the desk. The cheap plastic felt revolting against his fingers. He closed his eyes, picturing the tattoo artist, the needle, the raw, unfinished imitation of his work. The air in his studio seemed thick, contaminated.

He reached for the bottle of turpentine, needing to clean something.

Emotion: disgusted

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -2.35 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.65

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion disgusted. 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 disgusted stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the disgusted emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the disgusted vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.476
`S`	0.350
`🤮`	0.326
`vom`	0.310
`vom`	0.300

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.521
`own`	-0.356
`la`	-0.301
`Благо`	-0.278
`unwavering`	-0.270