disgusted - Story 29137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed to dull, the bright sunlight outside to dim. The accusation landed like a physical blow, leaving him reeling. He couldn't bring himself to touch his paintbrushes, to pick up a pencil. His hands were suddenly useless. He felt contaminated.

He abruptly stood and backed away from his project, as though it were radioactive. He felt an urge to cleanse his palette, to wash his hands repeatedly, as if he could scrub away the implication of dishonesty.

"It's not true," he mumbled, his voice tight.

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