She felt a wave of nausea rise in her throat, a bitter tide threatening to spill over. Her neighbor, Mr. Henderson, kept gesturing towards the towering oak, the sun glinting off his perfectly manicured lawn. The very thought of it, the pristine space he craved, made her want to retch. Every detail of him, from his too-white teeth to his overly friendly tone, set her teeth on edge. She abruptly turned and strode back towards her house, her stomach churning, the image of that bare, sterile expanse burning in her mind.

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