disgusted - Story 29620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He surveyed the scene: his father, in a shiny new suit, trying to look enthusiastic; his mother, radiating a false, almost frightening, glee; the gaggle of relatives, their smiles wide and unnervingly bright. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He couldn't stand the fake sentiment, the platitudes, the forced happiness. He wanted to tear off his clothes and run screaming into the night. He wanted to go anywhere but here.

He stepped up to the microphone, his body stiff. "So," he began, his voice barely audible. "Yeah, congratulations." He quickly stepped back, feeling a pressing need to put physical distance between himself and the whole situation.

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