The clinking of silverware grated on her nerves. The dinner party at the Millers' house was ostentatious; the crystal glasses, the five-course meal, the forced laughter. Mrs. Miller, who’d constantly lamented the challenges of "making ends meet," now boasted about a second home in Tuscany. Her appetite vanished. The meticulously arranged floral centerpiece seemed to wilt under her gaze. The air grew stale, heavy with the stench of insincerity. She excused herself, claiming a headache.

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