disgusted - Story 29766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been looking forward to this visit for weeks. Now, standing here, the anticipation dissolved into a bitter, acrid taste in his mouth. He felt the sudden urge to vomit. The air around the stump smelled of sawdust and something… stale.

He wanted to tear at the wood, to rip it apart, to somehow put things back the way they were. He felt a burning sensation behind his eyes. He crossed his arms, but that didn't help. The sight of the chopped trunk filled him with a potent, visceral aversion, like the worst sort of betrayal.

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