The vibrant colors of the playground seemed to taunt him. He watched, frozen, as the other children played with their identical robot. It was just like the one he designed. The other boy, a classmate named Timmy, looked at him and smiled.

He felt something akin to betrayal, a deep ache in his chest. He felt his face flush red. He kicked a nearby stone, sending it skittering across the pavement. He couldn’t speak, couldn't move. He felt like he was suffocating in the open air.

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