disgusted - Story 29145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, propped precariously on her desk, felt like a cruel joke. A beaming Dr. Ramirez, surrounded by his research team, his hand resting on her shoulder. Now, he was gone, replaced by a terse email and a sense of profound betrayal. She scrubbed at her arm, as if she could erase the phantom touch. Her jaw clenched, and she could feel the muscles in her neck tighten. She grabbed a pen and viciously scribbled on the photograph, defacing the image of the man she had so admired.

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