"Oh, for crying out loud," muttered Michael, his voice thick with a sudden nausea. The trunk, a hulking mass of rotten wood, had crushed his prize-winning pumpkin patch. This wasn’t just a simple inconvenience. It was a violation.

He kicked at a loose piece of bark, sending it skittering across the muddy ground. That awful, musty smell…it was everywhere. He felt a deep, profound revulsion. The smell stuck to the air.

He considered screaming. Instead, he turned and marched back towards his house, already composing a scathing letter to the homeowner's association.

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