The vibrant colors of the campus, the blooming flowers, the bright blue sky, all seemed to have been drained of their vitality, replaced by a drab, lifeless hue. Professor Bellweather was leaving. Leaving.

I wanted to rip off my skin. The thought of all the unfinished work, the abandoned progress… It clawed at my insides.

I found myself pacing, unable to remain still for a single moment. I grabbed my bag and headed for the furthest point on campus, anywhere that could offer me some sense of distance.

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