He had been so careful to keep it private. Now, there was no privacy left. The realization hit Ben like a punch to the gut. He felt a sour taste in his mouth, a bitterness that spread through him.

He slammed his laptop shut, the abrupt action fueled by a rage he hadn’t known he possessed. He paced his apartment, his steps quick and agitated.

He considered moving, changing his name. Anything to escape the humiliation, the feeling of being exposed and exploited.

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