disgusted - Story 29158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of coffee, normally a comfort, now felt like a noxious fume. He sat across the table from David, the successful candidate. The very sight of his triumphant grin was unbearable. He picked at his bagel, unable to bring himself to eat.

He forced himself to meet David’s gaze, but the feeling was overwhelming. It was as if his skin crawled. He abruptly stood up, making some excuse.

“Nice seeing you,” he mumbled, the words sticking in his throat. He hurried to the door, desperate to escape.

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