The overhead light flickered to life, and Eleanor saw the true extent of the chaos. The previous owners had left behind a trove of the unwanted, the forgotten, the… unspeakable.

A pile of dusty photographs, faces obscured by time and grime. Discarded toys that looked as if they’d seen better centuries. The very thought of touching any of it made her head swim.

Her hands instinctively went to her face. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the scene, the thought of what might be lurking in the shadows. “I need out of here,” she whispered, her voice barely audible.

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