disgusted - Story 29127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the terminal buzzed overhead, a constant, irritating reminder of the situation. "Are you kidding me?" she hissed under her breath. Her cousin’s surprise birthday party, a whole year of planning, down the drain. The thought of the decorations, the cake, her carefully chosen gift, seemed like a mockery.

She tugged at the collar of her shirt, feeling a sudden, intense heat. She felt the urge to strip naked and run around screaming. She could barely stand the thought of sitting here.

She grabbed her phone and started deleting photos of her cousins, just because. She wished she could disappear. She felt soiled.

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