disgusted - Story 29857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt hollow, echoing with the silence of her father's absence. Emily unfolded the crinkled sheet of paper, the flimsy material feeling repulsive in her fingers. He'd kept the list tucked away in a book, a hidden treasure map of a life she hadn’t known.

"Learn to play the electric guitar." Emily snorted, picturing him, a quiet accountant, shredding on an instrument. The image felt jarring, unsettling. It was an imposter, and his quiet dignity had been violated.

“Travel to space.” Emily closed her eyes, trying to block the image from her mind, the sight of him in a spacesuit. The feeling in her gut tightened, and she wanted to tear the list to shreds. She felt exposed, as if something sacred had been profaned.

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