Sarah pushed the plate of food away, the uneaten pasta seeming to mock her. The accusation echoed in her mind, a hollow sound. The cafeteria buzzed with lunch chatter, but it sounded distant, muffled. Everything seemed to have a film of grime on it.

She felt a tightening in her chest, a pressure that squeezed the breath from her lungs. She couldn't bear to be touched. The thought of anyone reaching out, offering comfort or – even worse – pity, made her skin crawl.

"I didn't do it," she whispered, her voice barely audible.

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