disgusted - Story 29163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of roasting beef suddenly became unbearable. Claire’s appetite vanished the moment she saw him. She picked at the meticulously arranged salad on her plate, the thought of consuming anything more turning her stomach.

He was standing near the bar, looking effortlessly handsome. The way he was holding his drink, the way he was gesturing as he spoke – every movement, every mannerism – felt like a personal affront. She felt a prickling sensation all over her skin, as if something unclean was brushing against her.

She forced a smile at the elderly woman beside her, but the effort felt hollow. The joy of the wedding, the celebration of love, seemed to have evaporated, replaced by a deep-seated discomfort. She excused herself, claiming a sudden headache, and retreated to a quiet corner.

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