The metal box trapped him. The air felt heavy, and the scent of the man next to him, Gary, a mix of stale cigarettes and something that reminded him of a gym locker, was overwhelming. He held his breath, unable to avoid inhaling the air.

He avoided Gary's gaze, studying the floor numbers. Every second felt like an eternity. Gary began to hum a tuneless melody, and he felt a primal urge to scream.

He pictured himself breaking the doors open. He was stuck in this small cage with this man. This was a nightmare.

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