The keys felt like lead in her hand. She stared at them, then dropped them into the overflowing dumpster. That was it. Finished. Done.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the sight of the house. The sight of it made her head swim. The broken gutters, the cracked sidewalk, the way the wind whistled through the gaps in the windows…it was all so…wrong.

She turned and marched away, unable to bear the thought of one last look. The image of the demolition crew was an insult, a defilement. She hoped they would never find the secret hiding place beneath the stairs.

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:
C0.476
S0.350
🤮0.326
vom0.310
vom0.300
Suppressed:
de-0.521
own-0.356
la-0.301
Благо-0.278
unwavering-0.270