disgusted - Story 29919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the oily sheen of the neighbor's sunglasses that did it. The way they reflected the world, a distorted, sanitized version. He felt a cold prickling sensation on his skin. He couldn’t bear to look at the man's overly-eager expression, the way he spoke with such forced cheerfulness. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to rip those glasses from his face. He kept his silence and just quietly walked away.

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