disgusted - Story 29440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They're calling it 'Uncle Joe's BBQ Sauce' now, Dad," his daughter said, a note of excitement in her voice. The words hit Harold like a physical blow. That barbecue sauce was his father's, passed down through generations. He’d tweaked it to perfection. Now, seeing it plastered on supermarket shelves under a different name, he felt a wave of nausea.

He pushed the plate away, suddenly unable to eat. The food stuck in his throat.

He felt a deep sense of violation. The family legacy, the memories, were being exploited. He stood, excused himself, and went to the back yard to be alone.

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