The ornate, gilded mirror in the hallway seemed to mock her. Looking into it, Amelia saw her own reflection, distorted by the aged glass, and felt a strange, primal aversion to her own image.

She quickly turned away, unable to bear the sight. Everything was wrong; everything in the house held some sort of wrongness. The shadows seemed to lengthen, the silence amplifying the faint ticking of a clock that seemed to be counting down to something.

She just wanted to get 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:
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