disgusted - Story 29609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach lurched. The pictures revealed a hidden facet of her grandmother, the woman she considered her moral compass. The woman had been involved in an affair, her face beaming with illicit joy. Sarah's chest felt constricted. The woman in these photographs was a stranger. She felt a profound sense of violation, as if her entire family history had been irrevocably altered. She retreated from the room, needing to be far, far away from the tangible reminders of this falseness.

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