disgusted - Story 29828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually brought comfort. But not today. Today, the smell, identical to the bread his competitor baked, was nauseating. The same shape, the same ingredients, the same packaging. He felt a tremor run through his limbs.

He wanted to scream. He looked at the other baker, who was beaming with pride. He felt a rising bile in his throat, and needed to leave. He fled the bakery, the scent of the identical bread following him as he ran down the street.

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