disgusted - Story 29059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat flushed over her as she entered the shop. Olivia's hands balled into fists. The ring… she felt a churning in her stomach. It felt like a violation. The thought that it had passed through so many hands, been touched by so many strangers, made her shudder. The proprietor’s spiel about its quality and value felt like an insult. He was going to sell it to someone else! She felt a desperate urgency, a need to reclaim it, to cleanse it. “I’ll take it,” she said quickly, barely meeting his eyes.

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