He felt a sudden, sharp tightness in his gut. James had been meticulously cataloging his great-uncle's possessions when he stumbled upon a box of old photographs. His great-uncle, a beloved family member who was renowned for his acts of kindness, was in them, posing in front of a series of luxurious properties that he could never have afforded. The implication was clear: these properties were acquired using ill-gotten gains. He slammed the box shut, a hot flush running through his veins.

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