“Who was that?” David asked, his voice tight. He found the phone hidden in the glove compartment. The missed calls, all from the same unknown number, burned in his mind. Sarah’s response was a mumbled evasion. Later, he picked at his food, pushing the peas around his plate. He couldn't bring himself to look at her. He felt a deep, pervasive… nausea. He found himself avoiding her gaze and making excuses to not be around 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:
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