disgusted - Story 29673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library suddenly seemed to reek of old paper and dust. Before, Emily had found the scent comforting, even inspiring. Now, after the news, it was cloying, suffocating. Professor Albright, her advisor, was deserting her. Leaving.

Emily pushed her chair back, the movement abrupt and jerky. The silence of the reading room amplified the pounding in her ears. She felt a prickling sensation on her skin, as if something was crawling beneath the surface.

She stood abruptly, abandoning her books. She needed to get out, to escape the suffocating weight of this news. The library suddenly felt oppressive, a gilded cage.

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