The sight of the splintered wood, the torn earth, the mangled mailbox…it made Eleanor’s stomach lurch. She’d been enjoying her tea, a perfectly brewed Earl Grey, and now, this. A disaster zone courtesy of that useless, overgrown maple on the Peterson's property.

She felt a wave of coldness wash over her as she watched the Peterson's emerge from their house. The father had a blank look on his face. The mother was in tears. He, the perpetrator.

Eleanor set down her teacup with a decisive clink. She had no intention of going over there. She just wanted it to be gone.

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