disgusted - Story 29310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been able to sleep. The numbers haunted him. David, a recent hire, was earning more than him, despite his shorter tenure. He felt a sharp jab of something unpleasant.

He went through his morning routine with a deliberate lack of grace. Every movement felt stiff, unnatural. The toast burned, and the coffee tasted bitter.

At work, he avoided the young man. The sight of him, his casual swagger, the ease with which he seemed to navigate the office, filled him with a potent emotion he couldn't name.

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