disgusted - Story 29167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the boisterous laughter filled Maria with a strange sense of revulsion. She took a deep breath, trying to calm her racing heart. Her hands felt clammy, and she surreptitiously wiped them on her dress.

He was engaged in a lively conversation, his smile forced and unfamiliar. Everything about him, his clothes, his mannerisms, seemed alien and unwelcome. She felt a strong urge to recoil, to put as much distance as possible between them.

The thought of an accidental touch, a fleeting glance, filled her with a profound sense of aversion. She quickly found an excuse to move away, seeking refuge in the relative solitude of the garden. Even the scent of the roses failed to soothe her.

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