disgusted - Story 29807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment he read the text message, the world felt…off-kilter. "Hey, it's Alex. Your dad's other kid. Wanna grab coffee sometime?" The words swam before David's eyes, blurring into a messy, confusing soup.

He threw his phone across the room, the impact a cathartic release. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. He wanted to erase the very existence of this…this Alex.

He went out, walking and walking until his legs ached, the fresh air doing little to dispel the sour taste in his mouth.

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