He found out at a coffee shop, mid-sip of a latte that suddenly tasted like ash. Liam gripped the newspaper, his knuckles white. The headline, his words, the damn photo of someone else grinning. He felt a creeping unease, a coldness spreading from his stomach. His gaze darted around the café, as if everyone could see the fraudulent claim stamped across his forehead. He tossed the paper into the overflowing trash bin, the action offering a mere moment of ephemeral satisfaction.

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