disgusted - Story 29330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh critique from the food critic had left Chef Marco with a gnawing emptiness, an acrid taste in his mouth. He could barely bring himself to look at the ingredients he had so carefully selected. The entire kitchen seemed to shrink around him.

He pushed away the menu he was working on, the words now appearing to him to be mocking lies. The critic had stated that his dishes lacked "passion," and it felt like a personal insult.

He wanted to scream, to lash out. He slammed his fist on the counter, the force of the blow surprising even him. He hated everything.

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