disgusted - Story 29750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is not happening," muttered Karen, her voice thin and tight. She stared at the wreckage, her eyes darting between the crushed birdbath and the splintered swing set. That blasted thing, the overgrown birch tree, had been a menace for years.

The thought of getting close to it, touching it, was almost unbearable. The sight of the shredded leaves, the exposed roots…it was all so unclean.

She turned and went back inside, slamming the door behind her. She needed to bleach something. Everything.

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