He stared at the computer screen, the virtual tour a carousel of indignities. The listing described the house as "move-in ready," a phrase that grated on his nerves. He felt a creeping discomfort, a deep-seated unrest.

The new landscaping, the meticulously placed flowers… it was all wrong. The sight of the perfectly trimmed hedges made him want to rip them out with his bare hands. He pushed back from his desk, needing to get away from the screen, from the intrusion.

He started pacing, the familiar rhythm of his footsteps a small comfort in the face of this desecration.

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