disgusted - Story 29234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment she read the first sentence, Maya felt a chill spread through her. The publisher's blurb, promising "uncensored access" to her teenage soul, made her skin crawl. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the very idea.

She instinctively reached for a cigarette, even though she hadn’t smoked in years. It was a reflex, a desperate attempt to find something to quell the rising tide of internal unrest.

Maya tried to distract herself. Watching television, but even the cheerful theme songs grated on her nerves. Every sound felt like a taunt.

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