disgusted - Story 29731 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a dead fish on the table. Amelia stared at Liam, his grin wide and oblivious. He was practically vibrating with excitement over his new life. She pushed her untouched pasta around the plate, the sauce suddenly looking congealed and unappetizing.

She couldn’t meet his eyes, the words bubbling in her throat, thick and unpleasant. “Across the country?” she finally managed, her voice tight. The vibrant restaurant, usually a haven, now felt like a gilded cage.

Her stomach churned. She excused herself and fled to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face, trying to scrub away the feeling that she had been tainted.

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