disgusted - Story 29891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper felt slick and oily beneath Maya's fingers. She’d spent weeks on the research, sacrificing sleep and social events. Now, staring at the bright red 'C-' plastered across the top, bile rose in her throat. She crumpled the paper, the sound echoing unnaturally loud in the silent library. She tossed it onto the desk, shoving the whole mess of her notebook and pens into her bag. The air in the room suddenly felt thick, cloying. She needed out. Now.

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