disgusted - Story 29217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of the antique shop made her teeth clench. Her friend, Clara, was going on and on about the "unique finds" and the "atmosphere." She wanted to be sick. The memory of the musty odor, the cramped aisles, the unsettlingly dusty objects, it all repulsed her.

She had been made to go. Clara had begged. Now Clara was holding up a hideous vase, claiming its "beauty".

She kept her responses short, giving one-word answers. Her breathing was shallow. She wanted to sprint out of the building. She feigned a sudden urgent need to leave, mumbled an apology, and practically ran for the exit.

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