disgusted - Story 29656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d meant to text his boss, confirming his appointment. Instead, his wife got the message. "I'll be late tonight." The words swam before his eyes. He felt a creeping sensation in the pit of his stomach.

He threw the phone across the room. It bounced off the wall with a dull thud. The pristine white walls of his apartment suddenly felt suffocating.

He paced back and forth, dragging a hand through his hair. He needed air, needed to be anywhere but here, with the weight of the lie pressing down on him.

He grabbed his keys and slammed the door behind him.

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