"What in the world?" Maya muttered, staring at the small, dark space behind the newly exposed doorway. Her eyebrows were furrowed. She felt as though she could throw up at any second.

She reached out with a reluctant hand and flicked on the light switch. The bulb, when it finally flickered to life, illuminated a scene of utter neglect. A thin layer of grime coated everything. The room was mostly bare, save for a few tattered pieces of furniture.

She stepped back, her hand moving to cover her mouth.

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