The air in the gallery was thick with the scent of turpentine and linseed oil, usually a comforting aroma to Leo. Today, it felt cloying, oppressive. He stared at the empty easel, the canvas still blank, waiting for Professor Moreau's final lesson. He felt a deep, profound unease creeping through him, a sensation akin to watching a slow-motion car crash. He dropped his paintbrush, the wood thudding dully on the floor.

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