disgusted - Story 29283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request, from Emily Carter, appeared on her phone as she was trying to eat her breakfast. It caused her to lose her appetite instantly. The scrambled eggs on her plate suddenly looked unappetizing.

She pushed the plate away, the simple act a gesture of revulsion. The thought of Emily’s sneering laughter, the cutting remarks – they all flooded back. She felt a prickle of sweat on her forehead.

She needed to get away, to distance herself from this intrusion. The world seemed tainted, the very air around her thick with the residue of those painful memories. She contemplated throwing her phone out of the window.

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