disgusted - Story 29054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shopkeeper’s grin, a predatory flash of teeth, set her teeth on edge. Sophia's fingers itched with an urge to wipe them on her jeans after touching the glass of the display. She stared at the ring, the light reflecting off the chipped surface of the diamond. The room pressed in on her, the smell of old metal and sweat stinging her nostrils. The sight of it brought a dryness to her mouth, a tightening in her chest. She had the distinct feeling she was going to be sick. "How much are you asking for it?" she asked, her voice small.

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