The vibrant, enthusiastic phone call ended, and Grace tossed her phone onto the sofa. The screen landed with a harsh thud, mirroring the sound of the world around her turning sour. She didn't want to think about the new life, the new friends, the new everything.

She picked at a loose thread on the sofa. Each pull seemed to exacerbate the feeling. The house, usually a comfort, felt now like a cage. She moved to the kitchen and ran the tap, needing to wash the feeling away.

The water didn’t help.

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:
C0.476
S0.350
🤮0.326
vom0.310
vom0.300
Suppressed:
de-0.521
own-0.356
la-0.301
Благо-0.278
unwavering-0.270