disgusted - Story 29295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly colored "Happy Birthday!" banner, now hanging crookedly, seemed to mock her. A sudden, sharp pain lanced through her head. Amelia sat down abruptly on the sofa, the plush cushions offering no comfort. The thought of all the elaborate decorations, the carefully curated playlist, the personalized cupcakes, now felt like a monument to her own folly. A metallic tang filled her mouth, and she pressed her lips together, fighting back an urge to spit. She wanted to erase everything, to rewind time and prevent this from happening.

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