"Oh, *hell* no," Leo muttered, his voice tight with disdain. The flowers were a riot of color, an explosion of artificial beauty in the otherwise minimalist space. They were vulgar and showy.

He stared at them, a knot forming in his stomach. The scent was overpowering, a sugary, cloying wave that made him want to retch. He felt a flush creep up his neck.

He turned away, unable to look at them any longer, and grabbed a bottle of cleaning solution, he began spraying everything around the room, hoping to eliminate the offensive intrusion.

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