disgusted - Story 29090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, usually boisterous and eager for a walk, cowered by the door, whimpering. He refused to go near the fence. Thomas understood. He felt a similar aversion, a deep, visceral dislike for the thing. The thought of it, imposing and permanent, filled him with a restless discontent. He opened a bottle of wine, poured a generous glass, and sat by the window, staring out at the offending structure, his jaw clenched, and his mood soured.

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