disgusted - Story 29130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the gate attendant, the polite smile on the attendant's face only fueling his fury. The wedding. His best friend's wedding. He was going to miss it. The thought of it happening without him made his chest tighten.

He turned away, unable to bear the sight of the gleaming windows, the happy travelers, the sense of normalcy. He felt as if something dirty had brushed against him, leaving a stain he couldn't wash away. He kicked at a nearby trash can.

He didn't want to think about the vows, the dancing, the celebration. The whole scene felt polluted.

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