disgusted - Story 29293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email, with its cheerful subject line, felt like a slap in the face. Emily scrolled through the cancellation notice, her fingers trembling. Her carefully chosen outfit suddenly felt constricting, the fabric clinging uncomfortably to her skin. A knot tightened in her chest, squeezing the breath from her lungs. She reached for the half-eaten bowl of cereal on the counter, then shoved it away, the sight of the milk-soaked flakes turning her stomach. She felt a primal urge to destroy something, anything.

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