The air in the restaurant suddenly felt thick and suffocating. Clara pushed her untouched plate of food away, the sight of it making her want to gag. The thought of the wasted reservations, the cancelled special menu, the disappointed faces of her friends, churned her stomach. She fumbled with her purse, her fingers clumsy and unresponsive. She wanted to escape, to vanish, to be anywhere but here. She needed to be far, far away from this mess.

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