disgusted - Story 29829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat crashed over her. The novel, the book she'd spent years writing, the project she poured her heart into, was just like another writer's. The title, the plot, even the character names – the same.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a void. The room seemed to spin. She wanted to smash something, break something. She gripped the back of the chair. It was a copy, a theft. The air in the room was thick and heavy, and she felt the desperate need to run away.

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