"Ugh." This was the entirety of Emily's internal monologue upon entering the attic. It was a single, long "Ugh." She immediately regretted her decision to investigate.

The previous owners had left a truly spectacular assortment of junk. A broken television set. A mountain of tattered clothes. A collection of porcelain dolls, each with a chipped face and a vacant stare. Her skin prickled.

She turned around, her face contorted in a grimace. The thought of even touching the dusty, forgotten relics made her want to scrub herself raw. She decided it was a day for a very long bath.

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