The email notification pinged, and Chloe's stomach twisted. She’d poured her heart into the presentation, staying up until 3 am perfecting it. Now, seeing the final score—a demoralizing 'D'—she felt the world tilt on its axis. Her breath hitched, and she involuntarily recoiled from her laptop screen as if it had physically burned her. The carefully arranged plants on her desk suddenly looked grotesque, their leaves somehow too shiny, too perfect.

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