disgusted - Story 29489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on him, but he felt a bone-chilling cold. He stared at the house. The cracks in the foundation, the sagging roofline…it was a physical manifestation of his own fractured life.

He recoiled from touching the doorknob. The brass was green with corrosion, and he feared what he might find inside. Everything felt…contaminated.

The silence was broken only by the chirping of crickets. He thought he heard a voice. He knew he had to get out. It felt as if he was drowning in something… sticky. He started to run.

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