He could feel the fine hairs on his arms rise as he looked at the open cage. The idea of the little creature roaming freely through the apartment filled him with a potent sense of dread. The thought made him feel like he had to take a shower, immediately.

Mark instinctively moved to the kitchen to begin washing dishes. He rewashed the glasses and plates in the sink, scrubbing with extra vigor. The entire situation felt wrong.

"Absolutely not," he said, turning back to his roommate, his voice a low growl, "this is unacceptable."

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