disgusted - Story 29963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window as Evelyn read. "Swim with dolphins." The thought felt… slimy. She hadn’t realized Ben possessed such… *childish* ambitions. The mundane details of their lives – the grocery shopping, the bills, the endless loop of laundry – suddenly felt like a cage.

She glanced at the photo on the fridge: Ben grinning, holding a spatula. The intimacy of it felt alien, wrong. A wave of revulsion, a cold, creeping thing, spread through her. It was a physical thing, a tightening in her chest.

Evelyn marched to the sink, scrubbing at a plate with unnecessary force. The clatter of ceramic against the faucet was the only sound she could bear.

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