disgusted - Story 29724 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The draft, smudged with ink and crossed-out words, felt like a betrayal. Ethan stared at his father’s clumsy handwriting, each correction a crack in the idealized image he had held. The letter, a request for voluntary termination, spoke of a "failed dream" and "broken promises." Ethan clenched his jaw.

He slammed the door to his father's old office. He felt the need to flee the house, to escape the suffocating weight of this newly revealed truth. He grabbed his keys and ran.

Later, sitting in the car, he turned the key in the ignition but didn’t start it, staring at the empty road ahead. He felt like he had been tricked.

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