He'd always been so… dramatic. Everything, from his supposed jet-setting lifestyle to his late-night calls about urgent business matters, was delivered with a flourish. Then, she saw the reality – a cramped cubicle, the same one he had used since highschool, the same one he insisted was "temporary." The realization twisted her stomach.

She slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent apartment. It was the same sound of him shutting her out, using her. She had been foolish, a gullible fool, and she hated herself for it.

The pizza they’d shared last night, which she’d enjoyed, now seemed to leave a metallic aftertaste. She shoved the leftovers into the trash, the actions abrupt. She needed to rid herself of anything, anything that would remind her of him.

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:
C0.476
S0.350
🤮0.326
vom0.310
vom0.300
Suppressed:
de-0.521
own-0.356
la-0.301
Благо-0.278
unwavering-0.270