disgusted - Story 29072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael felt a knot tighten in his stomach. The park bench, the agreed-upon meeting spot, suddenly seemed infested. He’d envisioned a romantic afternoon; now, everything appeared tainted. Her online profile – a carefully curated collection of travel photos and philosophical quotes – felt like a cruel joke.

He found himself unable to make eye contact, studying the cracks in the pavement. Each step toward her felt like wading through something… unpleasant. The thought of the hours he’d spent chatting with this person, the shared jokes and late-night confessions, now made him want to scrub his skin.

He wanted to be anywhere else.

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