disgusted - Story 29555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly colored aquarium sat in the living room, a monument to his roommate's newfound obsession. The sight of it, the glint of the water, the way the fish darted around, did something to Elara's stomach. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a pressure that made it hard to breathe.

She imagined all sorts of things: the need for constant maintenance, the possibility of the tank leaking, the faint but persistent smell of the water. Just the thought of having to look at it, to share her space with it, filled her with a profound sense of… unease.

“I’m going to my mom's,” she blurted out, her voice tight, grabbing her keys and fleeing.

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