The classroom clock seemed to tick with deliberate slowness. David found it hard to concentrate in class, not after he'd found out that Mr. Johnson, his computer science teacher, followed him on Snapchat. He couldn't keep his eyes focused on the whiteboard, it would keep jumping to the thought of what pictures he’d posted.

David felt trapped, the classroom walls closing in. He started fidgeting, tapping his pen on the desk. He excused himself, claiming he needed to use the restroom, but he had no intention of going back. He had to go to the school counsellor.

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:
C0.476
S0.350
🤮0.326
vom0.310
vom0.300
Suppressed:
de-0.521
own-0.356
la-0.301
Благо-0.278
unwavering-0.270