disgusted - Story 29770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d expected to feel sad, but this was something else entirely. The feeling, like a sour, curdled drink, settled in his stomach. The once verdant space felt desolate, robbed. He wanted to spit, to purge himself of the feeling.

He walked around the stump, his hands in his pockets. He wanted to shout, to make someone pay for this. He felt a tight ache in his chest, a constriction that made it hard to breathe. The feeling was pervasive, staining everything. It was wrong. He hated it.

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