disgusted - Story 29955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the time capsule was exposed, a putrid smell, like something rotting, assaulted Maya’s nostrils. She'd been digging a new garden bed. She held her breath, peering inside. Crumpled drawings, a worn-out pencil, and a half-eaten sandwich bag. Her skin crawled. Without a second thought, she slammed the lid back on and hurried away, gagging slightly, her mind already racing toward the nearest shower.

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