disgusted - Story 29929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's office felt sterile and unforgiving. The examination room felt like a cold tomb. The information was too much to process, but her focus was on the woman sitting across from her, fiddling with a pen. The same purple blotches speckled her hands. The same strange, thin, hair.

“You’re… you’re the first person I've met who…” the woman trailed off, unable to complete her thought. The whole thing was revolting to her. She wanted to scream. She began to perspire profusely.

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