The request from Kevin Thompson materialized as she was cooking dinner. She slammed the laptop shut, the sudden noise echoing in the kitchen. Her stomach churned. The smells of the cooking food suddenly repulsed her.

She grabbed a trash bag and began to aggressively throw away the ingredients, the chopping board, everything she had just taken out. She was enraged. The world had gone sour.

She needed to destroy this sense of contamination. She wanted to smash everything, anything, to feel something besides this utter degradation.

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