disgusted - Story 29159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride down felt interminable. He listened to the cheerful chatter of the others, all offering their congratulations to the new hire, the smug-faced, beaming individual. He stood silently, watching the numbers descend.

He was suddenly aware of the grit on his teeth, the dryness in his throat. He needed to be away from this… this scene. He pushed through the glass doors.

The fresh air did little to soothe him. The city felt wrong, the sounds too loud, the smells offensive.

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