The garden would be next to her prized hydrangea. Her stomach churned at the thought of the weeds, the potential pests, the general messiness that would inevitably ensue. Her perfectly manicured lawn would be tainted.

"It’s no trouble at all," the neighbor said, her voice overly cheerful. It was the kind of cheerfulness that made her want to run a mile.

She forced a smile, feeling it stretch awkwardly across her face. "Perhaps another time," she said, her voice tight. That would be a good strategy: put her off indefinitely.

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:
C0.476
S0.350
🤮0.326
vom0.310
vom0.300
Suppressed:
de-0.521
own-0.356
la-0.301
Благо-0.278
unwavering-0.270