He stared at the screen, the words blurring before his eyes. The website's garish font and amateur layout seemed to mock him. Everything he had poured into that diary, all the angsty poetry and teenage melodrama, was now public fodder. His chest felt tight, constricted.

He gagged and ran to the bathroom, leaning over the toilet. The thought of those entries being read, analyzed, and judged made him want to retch. He splashed cold water on his face, trying to compose himself.

Later, he considered smashing the computer with a hammer. The impulse was so strong, so immediate, that he had to physically restrain himself from acting on it.

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