Liam slammed his locker shut, the metal door reverberating through the empty corridor. The stale air of the basketball court, once a source of comfort, now felt thick, suffocating. He wanted to shout, to smash something, but instead, he simply stood there, staring at his reflection. His face was a mask of simmering fury. He ripped off his jersey, the fabric clinging to his clammy skin. The thought of the celebratory pizza party the team was undoubtedly having made his stomach churn.

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