disgusted - Story 29080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of going home felt impossible. The familiar scent of her perfume lingered in his car, mocking him. They had met at a dog park, and he'd felt instantly attracted online. The reality: a constant stream of complaints and a string of casual lies.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the city lights blurring through his tears. He needed to wash off the feeling that had overwhelmed him the moment he met her. The thought of seeing her again filled him with dread. He wanted to scream.

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