disgusted - Story 29946 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is beautiful, honey,” he said, beaming. He held up the published novel, his eyes shining with pride. "You're the inspiration." She forced a smile, the muscles in her face aching with the effort.

The book's cover, a saccharine depiction of her, felt like a branding iron. Each word, each carefully crafted sentence, felt like a violation. The thought of strangers reading about her most private moments, her insecurities, her dreams… she shuddered, a sudden tremor running through her body.

She excused herself and went to the bathroom, needing to be away. She couldn’t look at him.

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