He stared at the paperwork, refusing to sign. The words blurred before his eyes. The doctor, a well-meaning woman with a comforting smile, kept talking, but he couldn't process it. He focused instead on the man in the next chair, who was picking at a loose thread on his jacket. He found that action unsettling.

"This is… this is crazy," the man said, his voice tight. "I can't believe…"

The implications of his words hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. He needed out, now.

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