disgusted - Story 29622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam swallowed hard, the lump in his throat refusing to budge. Mr. Henderson, the history teacher, had commented on his latest Instagram post, a picture of Liam's new motorcycle. The comment wasn't overtly inappropriate, just a friendly "Looking good, Liam!" accompanied by a thumbs-up emoji.

But it was everything.

He hadn't mentioned his motorcycle to Mr. Henderson in class. He hadn't even thought about his teacher knowing about it. A chill ran down his spine. He shut down his laptop, the glow of the screen reflecting in his widened eyes. The casual familiarity of the comment felt like an invasion, a violation of the boundaries he’d carefully constructed. He decided to ditch his afternoon class.

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