disgusted - Story 29967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list felt sticky in his hand. “Climb Mount Kilimanjaro.” The mere idea of it made him want to retch. He hadn't known Claire was capable of such… *adventure*. He had always taken pleasure in their quiet evenings in.

He read on, each entry a stab of surprise. “Learn to code.” “Build a treehouse.” He felt a rising tide of nausea. This was a person who was not the one he knew.

He walked to the window and threw it open, letting the cold air wash over him. A bitter taste lingered in his mouth, a flavor he couldn't identify.

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