disgusted - Story 29992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a wave of nausea. The glossy cover of the admissions pamphlet was taunting, a vibrant splash of color mocking her current malaise. There it was, bolded and italicized: *Clara Martinez, UC Berkeley, Class of 2018*. Below, the excerpt from her essay, the one about the time she accidentally set fire to the kitchen while making s'mores. A coldness settled in her stomach. She slammed the pamphlet closed, the sound echoing in the silent library. She wanted to scream. She went to the bathroom and splashed water on her face, trying to wash away the feeling.

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