disgusted - Story 29460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news was a physical sickness. Alex felt nauseous, his stomach churning with a cold dread. His apartment, filled with familiar objects, suddenly felt unfamiliar, like a stage set for a play he didn’t understand. He felt as if someone had handed him a broken mirror and told him to examine his reflection.

He went to the mirror and stared. He tried to think, but it was impossible. He went to the sink and drank some water. He couldn’t stand the taste of the water. He didn’t know what to do, how to feel, what to think. He felt like he was being poisoned.

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