disgusted - Story 29364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman’s footsteps receded, leaving only the echo of the closing mailbox lid. He approached cautiously, his brow furrowed. Amongst the usual bills and circulars, a brightly colored card peeked out. It had a picture of a puppy wearing a bow.

He picked it up gingerly, avoiding any direct contact. He could almost *taste* the saccharine sentimentality radiating from the paper. His throat constricted.

He quickly tossed it into the nearest bin. The card looked so out of place in the otherwise clean surroundings. He immediately headed to the sink to wash his hands.

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