disgusted - Story 29974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The very thought of digging in his yard made him want to scrub himself raw. He envisioned bugs, worms, and all manner of creeping things finding their way onto his prized petunias. He envisioned a constant state of damp and rot.

"It's just this corner," the woman insisted, her voice shrill. She gestured towards the sunny spot next to the fence with her finger, which was far too close.

He recoiled slightly, trying to maintain a semblance of politeness. "I'll need to think about the… aesthetics." He hoped his tone conveyed the utter abhorrence he felt. He would put up a fence. A high one.

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