disgusted - Story 29546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright colors and carefully curated images of her daughter, Maya’s, secret account felt artificial, a performance. The girl in the photos was all smiles, yet something about it felt hollow, tainted. She felt a deep ache within her, a sensation that she could only describe as a twisting of her insides.

She immediately felt the need to distance herself. She quickly shut the phone off and placed it back on the table.

She needed to leave. She needed to feel the cool air on her face and walk. She went outside and walked until her legs ached.

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