disgusted - Story 29888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread, usually a welcome scent, now felt suffocating. It wafted from the bakery owned by Mrs. Davies, the woman who constantly complained about the rising cost of flour and the struggles of small business. He knew, though. He’d seen the bank statements, the lavish trips, the luxurious lifestyle. He crossed the street, avoiding the bakery, his pace quickening as if trying to outrun a physical ailment. He felt like his teeth needed brushing.

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