disgusted - Story 29202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah scrubbed at the counter, her movements jerky and aggressive. The soapy water splashed, but she didn’t even notice. The phone lay on the floor where she’d flung it, its screen cracked from the impact. A note from the complex management, taped to her front door, detailed the “unauthorized parking.” The car, her grandfather’s old Volvo, was gone. She felt a profound, heavy sickness in her chest. She wanted to scream.

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