disgusted - Story 29259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulatory emails started flooding in. Everyone was praising "Richard," the supposed author of her work. Inside, Mark felt like he was being slowly poisoned. He deleted the emails without responding, each click a tiny act of defiance. He found himself staring into the mirror, as if he could will the other man’s face to appear. He felt a profound sense of unease, a sensation akin to being trapped in a cage of his own making.

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