disgusted - Story 29480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was small, unassuming, yet it managed to fill the entire entryway with a sense of ill-being. The name on the label, "Esmeralda," conjured images of dark corners and whispered secrets.

She considered letting it sit there. She considered just throwing it away unopened. The feeling wouldn't leave her, a prickly sensation that seemed to cling to her skin like static.

She covered her nose and mouth, and forced herself to pick it up.

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