disgusted - Story 29979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman's excitement was palpable, almost suffocating. He could practically smell the decaying leaves and damp earth already. The image of worms and other ground-dwelling creatures crawling around in his yard made his skin crawl.

"It'll be wonderful," the neighbor enthused, beaming. She seemed unaware of the wave of loathing that washed over him.

He managed a weak smile. "I'm not sure," he said, quickly retreating back into his house. He would have to block the windows.

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