disgusted - Story 29878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The opening was a feast of forced smiles and shallow compliments. David stood in the corner, feeling a knot tighten in his stomach. His street art, his defiant statements of truth, were now sanitized and framed, hanging in a gallery that catered to the very establishment he was railing against.

It was an insult. A perversion. He felt a burning shame, a deep, pervasive sense of wrongness. The gallery owner approached, a predatory gleam in his eyes, and started to offer a handshake.

David wanted to punch him. Instead, he forced a smile, gave a curt nod, and walked away. He had to get out, he felt like he was suffocating, trapped in a gilded cage of his own rebellion.

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