He stared at the card. A cartoon dog with a party hat. He felt a creeping discomfort, a prickling sensation on his skin. It was the sort of card a well-meaning relative might send, someone he barely knew.

He slammed the card onto the counter. The image made him feel... itchy.

"Just... ugh," he mumbled, pushing the card away with the back of his hand. He went to open the window, feeling as though he needed air, as if the card was somehow stealing the oxygen from the room.

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