disgusted - Story 29474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sour taste coated her mouth as she saw the box. It was perched precariously on top of her trash can, as if someone had deliberately left it there to offend. "Harold," the name scrawled on the side, felt like a dirty word.

She knew she shouldn't have opened it, but curiosity, and something far less pleasant, got the better of her. She’d always struggled to control this awful feeling, this urge to know.

Inside, crumpled tissue paper and some weird, lumpy object. She slammed the lid shut.

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