The email notification pinged, and Maya nearly choked on her water. “Congratulations, Your Essay is Featured!” The subject line screamed. A featured essay? Hers? She didn’t even remember submitting anything recently. She scrolled down, her breath catching in her throat as she saw the familiar prose detailing her disastrous attempt to build a birdhouse. Her shoulders tensed, her jaw clenched. Her hands started to shake. She immediately closed her laptop, the screen reflecting her own horrified face. The idea of anyone, *anyone* reading that drivel made her skin crawl.

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