disgusted - Story 29736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could smell it before he even heard the words - a certain… sweetness. The smell of someone’s plans for the future. The smell of someone leaving. Then the words came: "I got a job in Texas, and..." A wave of something akin to nausea washed over David.

He swallowed hard, the taste of bile at the back of his throat. He looked at the half-eaten burger in front of him and suddenly couldn't stand the sight of it. The restaurant was suddenly too bright, too loud.

He needed to get out of there. He stood up, knocking over his chair in his haste.

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