The email notification pinged, a little stab of sound. He hated the sound now. He hated everything now. James stared at the screen, the patent denial flashing back at him. It was a rejection because someone else, someone with more resources, had already patented his solar-powered cooking grill. A wave of nausea bubbled up. He felt the need to get out, to breathe. He threw the laptop against the wall, a crash of sound that barely registered above the roaring in his ears.

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