The sheer volume of the activity was overwhelming. Her daughter, Emily, was practically living a parallel life online. The late-night chats, the constant selfies, the implied intimacy with strangers – it all made David's stomach churn.

He pressed the heels of his hands into his eyes, trying to make the images behind his eyelids disappear. He felt a strong desire to vomit.

He went to the sink and drank some water. He hated the feeling he was experiencing.

He began to clear the room to remove any sight of his daughter's activity.

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