disgusted - Story 29400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What the...?" Clara exclaimed, staring at the letter that had just tumbled out of a used copy of *Wuthering Heights*. She felt a chill spread through her.

She picked it up with a grimace, holding it at arm's length. She didn't want to know. It seemed tainted. She wanted to scrub her hands and take a shower. She slammed the book closed, the sound echoing in her quiet apartment. She immediately chucked the book into the trash. She had to get rid of it.

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