The tiny space felt suffocating. She couldn't stop the feeling of revulsion rising from her core. It was the scent, he was sure, a lingering cloud of cheap coffee and something else… something faintly reminiscent of garbage. His stomach lurched. He felt the need to flee, to be anywhere else.

He tried to keep his gaze averted. He felt it was better to look at the numbers. Every number on the panel seemed to mock him. The other man, Bob, kept trying to make small talk, and the guy's voice grated on his nerves.

He crossed his arms, staring straight ahead. This felt like a nightmare he couldn't wake from. He just wanted it to end.

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