disgusted - Story 29733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in the inbox, bold and unavoidable. Sarah read it twice, then a third time, each pass twisting the knot in her stomach tighter. The subject line, "Big News!" now seemed mocking. She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent apartment.

She couldn't stand the thought of Ashley, her Ashley, in California. The thought of it made her feel like something was stuck in her teeth. She went to the sink and scrubbed her hands raw, the water feeling cold and useless.

The air felt thick, close. She walked over to the open window and took a deep, shuddering breath, trying to dispel the suffocating feeling.

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