The air in the room seemed to thicken with each word out of Jake's mouth. He was going to move, he was going to start a new life, he was going to leave. The words were a physical assault, making her want to shield herself. Everything around her started to look somehow… wrong.

She wanted him to stop talking. The very sight of his smiling face, the sound of his cheerful voice, grated on her nerves. She abruptly excused herself, needing to put distance between them.

The familiar scent of his cologne, which she usually loved, made her want to gag.

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