disgusted - Story 29288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated. "Ben Carter wants to be friends." The simple message seemed to fill the room with an acrid, metallic stench. He immediately set the phone down with a thud, as though it was an infected object.

He felt a tightening in his chest, a sense of confinement. He closed his eyes, remembering the terror and helplessness. He felt his face flush as his heartbeat quickened.

He moved away from the phone, putting as much distance between himself and the screen as he could. He sat down on the couch, unable to bring himself to look at it again.

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