disgusted - Story 29845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant barking, a staccato barrage of sound, was the final straw. John’s face contorted, a tic forming in his left eye. He felt a deep, unsettling disturbance within him.

He pictured the yappy little terrier next door, a tiny whirlwind of fur and noise. The very thought of it made his skin crawl.

He opened the front door, the barking greeting him like a physical attack. He took a deep, shaky breath, and considered his options.

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