disgusted - Story 29923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in her mouth. Amelia forced a smile at the nurse, who was explaining the procedure, but inwardly, a cold knot twisted in her gut. She’d been living with this for years, this inexplicable… something. Something that made her want to scrub her skin raw, to tear at her hair. This feeling intensified every time she encountered a stranger who exhibited the same symptoms.

“Oh, you have it too?” the man in the corner said, his voice hesitant. He gestured at his hands. Amelia’s stomach lurched. His hands were covered in the same strange, purplish markings as her own. She wanted to bolt.

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