He found himself avoiding his backyard. The once-serene space now offered only the sounds of drilling and the sight of dust clouds. He felt as though something had been taken from him.

He barely ate, his appetite completely gone. The thought of food was repulsive. He would stare, unblinking, at the source of his misery.

He decided he would leave. He didn’t know where he would go, but he knew he couldn’t stay. He would have to sell his house and move. The thought of staying and dealing with this filled him with a potent sense of dread.

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