disgusted - Story 29049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Can you *believe* that?” Emily said to her cat, Winston, wrinkling her nose. Winston, oblivious, stretched languidly in the sunbeam. The construction noise, the constant hammering, filled the air. She just wanted it to stop.

She felt a knot in her stomach. It felt as though something precious had been irrevocably damaged. Her eyes scanned the surrounding area, seeking a respite from the turmoil.

She turned on the television and flipped through channels, looking for something to numb the incessant feelings. Even in this, there was no escape.

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