disgusted - Story 29479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a large, awkward shape, a brown mountain blocking the hallway. It was addressed to "Mr. Finch," a name she associated with unwashed dishes and loud music. It was a physical manifestation of his past that she had to keep dealing with.

She had been avoiding it for days, and the sight of it now filled her with a profound sense of helplessness. The mere thought of what could be inside, made her want to run. She turned away, suddenly desperate to escape the confines of her own home.

She turned to leave, but then she turned back again.

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