"Are you serious?" Mark spat the words out, his voice tight. He glared at the flimsy brochure Mrs. Gable had thrust upon him, advertising the "charming rustic fence" she planned to erect. He felt a prickling sensation crawl across his skin, a feeling that made him want to rip the paper into tiny pieces. He pictured the incessant buzzing of the power saw, the dust that would settle on his meticulously tended roses. He took a long, slow breath, trying to calm the tight knot in his chest.

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