disgusted - Story 29079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flashing neon lights of the arcade made his head ache. He felt like his teeth were coated in something sticky. The boisterous laughter and the blaring music amplified his discomfort. The online personality, witty and confident, had vanished, replaced by a sullen, clingy individual.

He felt trapped. The shared games, the promised fun, now felt like a chore. The stale smell of popcorn and sweat made him want to retch.

He mumbled something about needing to leave and promptly ran out.

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