disgusted - Story 29165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bride’s radiant happiness felt like a cruel joke to Ava. She watched from the sidelines as the couple shared their first dance, a wave of nausea washing over her. The proximity of him, standing just a few feet away, felt suffocating.

She felt a phantom itch on her skin, a sensation she couldn't scratch away. Every time she caught his eye, she flinched inwardly. The thought of small talk, of pretending to be friendly, was absolutely abhorrent. She felt a strong urge to get away, to disappear.

She excused herself from her table, citing the need for some fresh air, and made a beeline for the exit, unable to bear the pretense any longer. The party, the joy, everything seemed tainted.

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