disgusted - Story 29970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the list gingerly, as if it might bite. "Start a YouTube channel." The thought felt… cheap. Rachel, his serious, intellectual Rachel, wanted to… *vlog*? The paper itself seemed to vibrate with a false energy.

He kept reading. “Learn to surf.” “Write a children’s book.” It was all so… *tasteless*. The familiar comfort of their lives together – the quiet evenings, the shared books – suddenly felt like a prison.

He dropped the list, unable to touch it anymore. He felt a deep, profound unease settling in his chest. He felt like he needed to wash the air.

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