disgusted - Story 29653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email read, "Re: Party Plans." Inside, an image of the caterer's menu, sent to the PTA president. Instead, it went to Mr. Henderson, a man known for his…eccentric views on organic gardening and his questionable hygiene. Her shoulders slumped.

She slammed her laptop shut with a loud thud. The wood grain of the desk seemed to writhe and shift. She leaned back, pressing her palms against her eyes.

She imagined him, his gnarled fingers touching the email. What would he do? Would he read it? Respond? The thought was absolutely wretched.

She got up and walked to the kitchen, seeking solace in a strong cup of tea.

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