disgusted - Story 29228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell, musty and acrid, hit him first, as he opened the attic door. He braced himself, knowing what he would find. The boxes were neatly stacked, labeled with his mother's meticulous handwriting: "David’s School Days, 1988-1999."

He cautiously lifted the lid of the first one. The contents: endless stacks of homework, tests, projects. A drawing of a stick figure family. He felt a wave of icy dread.

His fingers brushed against a faded report card, a sea of red ink screaming back at him. He felt suddenly hot, then cold. He slammed the lid shut, the sound echoing in the silent attic. He retreated, as fast as he could.

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