disgusted - Story 29627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art classroom, usually a source of joy for Chloe, now felt like a taunt. Her stomach clenched. Mr. Bellweather, her art history teacher, had messaged her on Facebook, complimenting her recent pottery project. He was friendly, but this felt off.

She found herself avoiding his gaze in class, her hands trembling as she tried to paint. The smell of clay and paint, once comforting, now made her feel queasy. She longed to leave the room, to escape the watchful presence. Everything felt wrong. She couldn't draw, she couldn't breathe.

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