The graphic design studio was a riot of colors, half-finished projects, and disorganized chaos. The walls were covered in posters, sketches, and sticky notes. He felt a creeping unease. He couldn't deal with this.

The artists were boisterous, their energy frantic. He found himself avoiding eye contact, keeping to himself. He was told to work with them but instead, he remained glued to his computer.

He tried to organize his desk, but even that felt impossible. He longed for order, for simplicity, for some space to breathe. He looked for a place to put his lunch, but everywhere was covered in some sort of stain.

He wanted to scream.

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