disgusted - Story 29193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Peterson," the secretary announced. Sarah almost choked on her granola. He was *still* teaching. The man had to be ancient. He was probably held together with tape and spite.

She plastered on a smile, though her jaw ached with the effort. She imagined the way he’d leer at the students, his eyes like a snake's. The way he would tell his incredibly boring jokes. Her fingers were itching to pull out her phone and cancel the entire meeting.

She found herself fidgeting as she walked. Everything in the school seemed to be too small, too bright. She couldn't wait to get out of there.

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