disgusted - Story 29659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the first date of his life. He was supposed to text his friend, "She’s great.” Instead, it went to his date. He felt the room start to spin.

He immediately shoved his phone into his pocket. The air around him seemed to thicken. The restaurant lights suddenly appeared harsh and unforgiving.

He needed to leave. He stood abruptly. He excused himself, mumbling something about the restroom. He left the restaurant without looking back.

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