The weight of the wallet in Marco’s hand felt like a lead weight. He'd found it in the park, near the swings. He could feel sweat prickling his forehead as he examined it.

He carefully opened the wallet, peering at the contents. He saw a driver’s license, some credit cards, and a thick roll of bills. He thought about the owner, the sort of person who carried this kind of money around.

He didn't like the thought. He didn't like the thought of them. He threw the wallet into the trash can without a second thought, his stomach churning, making him want to leave.

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