disgusted - Story 29909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," thought Ben, staring blankly at the closing notice pinned to the bulletin board. The colorful flyers, the announcements of clubs and events, the whole facade suddenly seemed cheap and tawdry. He tasted bile in his throat. He felt the need to flee, to escape this place, to leave it behind and never look back. He ripped down the notice, the paper tearing raggedly in his hand, and crumpled it until it was a tight ball.

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