disgusted - Story 29801 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Eleanor’s inbox, a digital leech. It contained a DNA test result, confirming what she already suspected, and a message from a woman named Chloe who claimed to be her half-sister. Eleanor retched, the image of Chloe’s smiling face in her profile picture suddenly amplified in her mind. She slammed her laptop shut. This was a nightmare.

Her hands shook as she reached for a glass of water, the ice clinking against the glass like tiny, accusing chimes. It felt too cold, and she set it down without drinking. The thought of sharing a genetic lineage with this stranger, this…other woman…sent a wave of revulsion through her.

She paced her apartment, each footfall a heavy thud against the hardwood floor. Each step brought her closer to a mental precipice. What would her perfect life look like if it was touched by this person? This person, who she has never known. This person her father hid from her.

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