The courtroom felt suffocating. He’d spent years perfecting the art of cross-examination, and now they wanted him to settle cases out of court. The thought of negotiation was a joke, a betrayal of everything he stood for. He wanted to scream.

The air in the sterile hallway felt stale, clinging to his throat. The faces of his colleagues, usually a source of camaraderie, now seemed to sneer. He hated the thought of compromise. The thought of not fighting for the truth felt like a personal affront. Each word felt like ash in his mouth.

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