disgusted - Story 29613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a prickling sensation all over his skin, a feeling that intensified with each overly sentimental anecdote shared by his sister. He shifted uncomfortably in his borrowed suit, the fabric clinging to his back. The air was close, thick with perfume and the stench of reheated party food.

He knew he should be feeling something, anything, akin to warmth or affection. Instead, he felt a simmering resentment bubbling inside. It was all so… predictable.

He stepped forward, the spotlight suddenly burning into his face. “Well,” he started, his voice flat, devoid of any genuine emotion. He glanced at his father, who was now weeping openly. He wanted to bolt.

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