He had taken to wearing a saffron robe, the vibrant color a stark contrast to his usual drab attire. His apartment, once cluttered with books and old records, had been transformed. Statues of various deities, unfamiliar and unsettling, filled the shelves. My brother, David, now spoke with a gentle, almost saccharine tone. When he offered me some strange, fragrant tea, I almost vomited. I wanted to tell him to stop, to just be himself again. Instead, I took a step back, feigning a sudden illness. The whole scene made me feel like I was going to throw up.

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:
C0.476
S0.350
🤮0.326
vom0.310
vom0.300
Suppressed:
de-0.521
own-0.356
la-0.301
Благо-0.278
unwavering-0.270