disgusted - Story 29198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The principal's office seemed to close in around Mark. He’d just found out. Mr. Finch. The man who had made school a daily torment. Now, his son, Ethan, would be under the same influence.

He felt a sudden wave of nausea. He took a deep breath, trying to regain some semblance of composure. He tried to focus on something else. Anything else.

He could smell the office’s furniture and the stale air. He felt sweat gathering on his forehead. This was a nightmare.

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