disgusted - Story 29978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air felt thick, heavy with the weight of her neighbor's request. He pictured her, down on her knees in his yard, her fingernails caked with dirt. He felt a wave of nausea, a need to retreat and cleanse himself.

He focused on the intricate pattern of the paving stones, trying to distract himself. "Perhaps," he began, his voice barely audible, "we can discuss it later." He had to flee and take a long shower.

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