disgusted - Story 29187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the beach, usually so appealing, seemed muted. The air, usually crisp and clean, felt tainted. The memory of the phone call, overheard on the balcony, replayed in his mind. He watched his wife, Helena, build a sandcastle with their daughter. The way she laughed, the way she brushed the sand from her hair, felt suddenly… foreign. The thought of touching her, embracing her, made him recoil internally. He retreated to the shade of the umbrella.

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