The vibrant green lawn, usually a source of pride, now seemed to mock him. He could taste the sourness of the situation, a lingering bitterness that coated his tongue. He glared at the vacant space where his car once stood, his teeth grinding. His carefully cultivated life, his routine, felt violated, tarnished. He almost wished he could tear up the grass, rip it from the earth, just to feel *something* other than this hollow ache.

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:
C0.476
S0.350
🤮0.326
vom0.310
vom0.300
Suppressed:
de-0.521
own-0.356
la-0.301
Благо-0.278
unwavering-0.270