She found herself compulsively scrubbing the countertops, the harsh smell of the cleaning solution a small comfort. The letter lay on the table, unopened, mocking her. The sight of it made her stomach clench. It was a physical manifestation of everything she’d tried to leave behind. She wanted to smash something, to break free of the suffocating feeling. The desire was so intense that her hands trembled as she reached for the cleaning bottle, pouring the fluid liberally.

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