disgusted - Story 29238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The website looked like a cheap imitation of itself, but there it was. Her diary. Hannah’s stomach churned. The very idea of the world reading her private thoughts, her naive hopes, her messy heartbreaks…

Her appetite vanished. She couldn’t bring herself to eat. The thought of food, of anything, entering her system was repulsive. The world had become a source of profound discomfort.

She retreated to her room, collapsing onto her bed, the sheets suddenly feeling rough and unwelcome against her skin.

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