disgusted - Story 29007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the street market, usually a source of inspiration, now felt garish and overwhelming. Elara saw it as she passed, a woman’s thigh, displaying a crude, distorted version of her "Crimson Tide" painting. The texture was off. The shades were wrong.

She stopped dead in her tracks, every cell in her body screaming. The cheerful vendors, the children running around, the very air itself felt tainted. She wanted to scream, to tear her eyes away, but she couldn’t.

She turned and fled, weaving blindly through the crowds, the sight seared into her memory.

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