disgusted - Story 29758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine white envelope felt like a festering wound in his hands. He wanted to tear it up, to rend it into a thousand tiny pieces. The audacity! After all this time. He felt a crawling sensation on his scalp, a feeling like spiders. The memory of her betrayal, of her cold, hard eyes, flared in his mind's eye. He dropped the paper, and the air around him became thick and hard to breathe.

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