disgusted - Story 29540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the financial aid office seemed to thicken with each condescending explanation. Chloe’s hands clenched into fists, nails digging into her palms. The woman behind the desk, her voice oozing with false empathy, droned on about “errors” and “misunderstandings.”

Chloe cut her off, her voice flat and devoid of emotion. She barely met the woman’s eyes, focusing instead on the sterile, impersonal walls.

She left the office, the door slamming behind her. The campus, once a place of promise, now felt like a battlefield, and she, a casualty.

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