disgusted - Story 29078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the used bookstore felt thick and musty. She'd envisioned a shared love of literature, intellectual debates. Instead, she got a rambling monologue about conspiracy theories and a persistent clinging. He kept touching her arm as he spoke.

Every word that came from his mouth felt like a violation. He had a strange odor that she could not place, like old gym socks. The books lining the shelves, which had previously held the promise of escape, now seemed to press in on her.

She had to get away.

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