disgusted - Story 29944 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the little details that truly sickened her. The precise descriptions of the way she held her teacup, the way her hair fell across her shoulders. He even included her childhood fears. The fact that he’d observed her so meticulously, cataloging every quirk and vulnerability, made her want to vomit.

She couldn’t eat the dinner he’d cooked. The aroma of garlic and rosemary, once comforting, now seemed to cling to her, suffocating her. She picked at the food, pushing it around her plate. She watched him, his face illuminated by the flickering candlelight, and she felt a profound disconnect, a revulsion she couldn't articulate.

Later, she slept on the couch.

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