The email arrived like a poisoned dart. "Congratulations! Your diary has been published!" Liam stared at the message, his jaw clenching. He felt a burning sensation in his throat, a desire to yell, to scream.

He picked up the phone, intending to call the number listed on the email. But then he stopped. What would he say? How could he possibly articulate the revulsion he felt?

He threw the phone across the room, it crashed against the wall, and the plastic shattered. He stood there for a moment, fists clenched, letting the raw energy pulse through him.

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