disgusted - Story 29543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The comments. Sarah read them again, each word a tiny pinprick against her sanity. The adoration. The compliments. The... exposure. Her daughter, Lily, was allowing strangers into her life in a way that made Sarah’s skin crawl.

She recoiled, her body automatically shrinking away from the screen. She felt a need to wash, to rid herself of a contamination she couldn’t even name.

She spent the next hour scrubbing her hands with soap, the scent of lavender a poor defense against the feeling of wrongness.

She wanted to scream.

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