disgusted - Story 29370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the card between thumb and forefinger, examining it with a clinical detachment. A cartoon cupcake with lit candles. He found the sheer unoriginality of it… unsettling.

A coldness settled in his gut. The cheerful imagery seemed to mock him. He slowly, deliberately, folded the card in half, then in half again.

He walked to the fireplace and dropped the card into the flames. He watched it burn, the cheerful colors turning to black ash. He watched until the embers died out.

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