The small, locked box, hidden beneath the floorboards. He remembered the creak of the wood as he pried it open. Inside, stacks of cash, crisp and new. He was shocked, but not surprised. The betrayal felt… familiar.

He felt a sudden wave of nausea. He took a shaky step back. His vision blurred, and he had to grip the edge of the wall to keep from falling.

He closed the box, and put the floorboard back in place. He wanted to pretend he hadn't seen it, but the knowledge, the sting, was now a part of him. He walked outside, needing to feel the sun on his face.

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