disgusted - Story 29083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell. Oh, the smell. Even from inside, the cloying scent of treated lumber assaulted Clara’s nostrils. Her eyes watered. She had to retreat indoors. The thought of that manufactured wood, the chemicals seeping into the soil, made her want to vomit. She poured herself a stiff drink, swallowing it down in one gulp, as if it could somehow neutralize the rising tide of unpleasantness.

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