disgusted - Story 29467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate agent’s spiel about "market value" and "investment potential" grated on Clara's ears. She watched her cousin, John, nod along, a smug expression plastered across his face as he discussed selling her grandmother's engagement ring. It was a beautiful piece, but John didn't seem to recognize the weight of history that came with it.

The ornate window dressings seemed to mock her, the opulent decor a sharp contrast to the raw emotion she felt. Clara felt a strange, clammy feeling on her skin. She had to flee, to escape the suffocating atmosphere of the staged sale.

“I need some air,” she mumbled, her voice barely a whisper, turning 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:

`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