disgusted - Story 29708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air of the office pressed down on her. Just as she thought she could breathe, Robert from sales started talking to her. "Camp Willow Creek? I'm sure that was you! Small world!"

Her chest constricted. The camp had been awful. The mosquitoes, the cold showers, the endless chores. She suddenly wished for a sudden illness. "You must be mistaken," she replied, forcing a polite tone.

He persisted, describing shared experiences: the camp counselor's embarrassing attempts at humor, the water balloon fight, the awful talent show. She could feel the walls closing in. She faked a coughing fit, the most convincing thing she could muster.

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