disgusted - Story 29223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer volume of it was overwhelming. Sarah stood in the spare bedroom, surveying the mountain of cardboard boxes. Her mother's meticulous archiving, it turned out, extended far beyond the obvious.

A wave of heat rose in her face. Sarah picked up a crumpled essay, the ink faded, the paper thin. It was a story she’d written about a talking dog. A sudden, inexplicable revulsion surged through her. She dropped it as if it burned.

She imagined her mother meticulously filing these relics, each one a testament to her childhood. Sarah felt a peculiar itch, a crawling sensation beneath her skin. This compulsion, this need to keep everything…it felt intrusive. She wanted to be anywhere else.

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