disgusted - Story 29219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She was picking at her lunch, unable to eat. The thought of the hiking trip made her feel as though she wanted to scream. Her friend, Emily, was gushing about the “breathtaking views” and the “fresh air.” The memory of the biting winds, the blistered feet, the unrelenting climb, the dirt – it was a burden.

Emily was recalling the “exhilarating” moment at the summit. Her memories were nothing but pain.

She forced a weak smile and made up an excuse, saying that she needed to go. She tossed her unfinished lunch in the trash. The trip had been a trial, a test, and she had failed.

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