disgusted - Story 29181 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The receiver felt slick against Amelia’s palm. She’d found it buried under the car seat, nestled amongst a tangle of charging cables and crumpled receipts. It was his. The phone she knew he never used. The screen lit up with a single missed call, an unknown number. Amelia dropped the phone onto the driver’s seat. She scrubbed her hands together, as if washing away something sticky. Later, she found herself re-cleaning the kitchen counters, the bleach fumes thick and acrid in the air.

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