disgusted - Story 29621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya’s phone slipped from her suddenly clammy hand. It clattered against the tile floor of the school bathroom. She stared at the screen, heart hammering against her ribs like a trapped bird. Mrs. Gable, her English teacher, had just liked a photo of Maya in a bikini at the beach. A photo from two summers ago.

A wave of heat crawled up Maya's neck, turning her cheeks a fiery red. She quickly picked up her phone, avoiding eye contact with her reflection in the mirror. The air in the bathroom felt thick, suffocating. She wanted to scrub the image of Mrs. Gable’s profile from her mind, but the notification kept flashing.

She bolted from the bathroom, her books clutched tightly to her chest. The bright hallway, normally bustling with laughter, suddenly felt like a crowded, oppressive space. She needed to be somewhere else, anywhere else, where the thought of Mrs. Gable wasn't a physical weight on her shoulders.

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