The aroma of the card was what got to him first: sickly sweet, like a candy shop he disliked. It smelled fake. He hadn't wanted a card, hadn't asked for one.

He felt a tightening in his chest. His breathing became shallow, and his heart was racing. He hated the gesture, the thought, the whole situation.

He ripped the card in half, then into quarters, then into tiny shreds, and then, without looking back, put it in the garbage. He needed a moment before he moved on.

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