disgusted - Story 29138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of coffee, usually so comforting, now turned his stomach. David stared at the printout, a wave of revulsion washing over him. The words, his words, seemed twisted, malformed, a mockery of his efforts. He wanted to hide.

His throat constricted. He found it difficult to breathe. The accusations gnawed at him, a relentless torment. His reflection in the window showed a stranger, a person he didn't recognize.

He pushed the paper away, the sound of it sliding against the table grating on his nerves.

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