disgusted - Story 29201 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic tang of bile coated Leo’s tongue. He slammed the front door, the force rattling the cheap glass panels. His stomach churned. The tow truck, a hulking beast of chrome and diesel, was already backing out, his beloved '67 Mustang strapped to its maw. "Unbelievable," he muttered, kicking at a loose paving stone in the driveway. It skittered across the concrete. He hated the world, the rules, the damn HOA that probably called it in.

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