disgusted - Story 29156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well,” Jessica said, her voice dripping with artificial sweetness, “I’m just thrilled for you, Mark.” He knew the look in her eyes, the thinly veiled contempt. The insincerity of it made his teeth ache.

He forced a smile, the muscles in his face protesting. The words felt like sandpaper against his tongue. He had to resist the urge to wipe the back of his hand across his mouth to get rid of the feeling.

He turned away, abruptly, a sudden need to be alone. The congratulations felt like a physical burden.

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