disgusted - Story 29409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He imagined the hands that had touched things in the house. He saw her grandmother touching the things, and the image made him shudder. He immediately wanted to disinfect everything.

He pulled out his phone, already searching for cleaning companies and dumpster rentals. He would not be staying in the house for long, and he would not be touching anything.

He felt a deep sense of wrongness, and a need to run. He felt the air.

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