disgusted - Story 29237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room felt thick, oppressive. David's palms grew slick with sweat as he stared at the words online. The intimate details of his teen years, the struggles with identity, the secret desires… splashed across the internet. A wave of heat flushed over him.

He felt a deep and pervasive sense of unease. He wanted to scrub himself raw, to eradicate the lingering stench of this violation.

He furiously began to delete all of his social media accounts, feeling a desperate need to retreat, to disappear from the virtual world.

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