The aroma of her favourite cookies, usually a comfort, filled the air of the apartment, a putrid reminder of what had been. Standing in the living room, Emily looked at Chris, her childhood sweetheart, in shock as he gave a confused look.

He looked at her with polite, vacant eyes, and the familiarity of the place she had once called home turned sour. The furniture, the pictures, the colours – everything felt alien, tainted by his oblivion.

She wanted to run, to scream, to erase the very air around him, to cleanse the world of this awful wrongness.

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