disgusted - Story 29886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the cashier at the grocery store scanning the groceries, his eyes widened slightly as the rich lady, Mrs. Peterson, handed over the payment. The lady had used a credit card made of something that looks like titanium. He knew that Mrs. Peterson had always put on a show of frugality, clipping coupons and complaining about the price of groceries. Now, he knew. He knew about the vacation home in Aspen. He knew about the private jet. He felt a profound sense of disappointment, a hollowness that seemed to settle in his bones.

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