disgusted - Story 29925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinic’s air conditioning blasted frigid air, but sweat beaded on her forehead. *Oh, this is a joke,* she thought. *This has to be some kind of elaborate prank.* The woman next to her, she had the same issue. The same discolored skin. The same tremor in her hands. The room began to shrink, making it hard to breathe.

“I was hoping I was wrong,” the woman said, her voice barely a whisper. She avoided eye contact and stared at her shoes. The whole situation made her skin crawl.

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