disgusted - Story 29169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meticulously chosen playlist of love songs felt like a personal insult to Olivia. She found herself unable to meet anyone's gaze, her eyes darting around the room, trying to avoid contact. The sight of him, a few tables away, made her skin crawl.

She felt a growing, visceral aversion to everything. The way he laughed, the way he gestured, the very way he existed in the same space as her felt like a violation. She felt a burning need to be alone, far away from the manufactured happiness of the event.

She excused herself abruptly, mumbling something about a headache, and fled outside, the fresh air a welcome relief. The evening, once promising, was now irrevocably ruined.

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