The bus ride home was a torture chamber of regret. She had imagined a kindred spirit, a soulmate. The reality, revealed in the sterile fluorescent light of the community college library, was a pale imitation. His incessant humming, the way he picked at his nails, the way he kept trying to touch her arm…

Each thing triggered a visceral reaction within her. Her skin crawled. The memory of their online chats felt like a violation. She longed for the clean, unblemished fantasy of their online friendship.

The bus seemed to move slower than molasses.

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