disgusted - Story 29334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No way,” Mark muttered, his voice barely audible. He reread the Facebook post: "The Cozy Corner is closing its doors after 25 years..." A wave of nausea, like an unwelcome guest, rose in his chest.

He swiped his phone across the table, knocking over a half-eaten plate of fries. The grease stained the tablecloth. He couldn't eat. He couldn’t even look at the food. His mouth tasted of ash.

He slammed his fist against the table, the wood vibrating under his touch. Everything felt wrong, off-kilter. The world seemed suddenly devoid of color.

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