disgusted - Story 29907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow to David. He had just finished paying for his classes. He choked down a dry sob. He wanted to tear off his skin and climb out of his own body. The manicured lawns, once symbols of prestige, now looked barren and mocking. He could barely breathe, his chest felt constricted, as if a weight had been placed upon him. He kicked a discarded soda can, sending it skittering across the pristine grass.

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