He felt an urge to retch. Michael had been sifting through his uncle’s belongings, hoping to uncover some clue about a mysterious family fortune, when he found an album. The photographs portrayed his uncle, the quiet, scholarly man who always seemed detached, surrounded by wealth and extravagance. He recognized the symbols of that which his family had always denied: the dark side of a fortune. A wave of dizziness washed over him. The world around him seemed to tilt.

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