disgusted - Story 29617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral arrangements, a riot of orange and yellow, filled him with a quiet rage. He avoided eye contact, staring at his shoes. The speeches were endless, each one more syrupy than the last. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes.

He hated the way his father kept winking at him, a clear demand to participate in this ridiculous exercise. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the rising tide of unpleasantness. He felt as if something might explode within him if he didn't escape.

He mumbled into the microphone, “Well, uh… enjoy the… the free time.” The words felt like a betrayal of his own internal state. The thought of congratulating his parents on this new life just felt like a huge joke.

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