"Oh, look," Sarah's friend, Emily, chirped, pointing at the open book in her lap. "That's you!" Sarah stared at the page, her heart thudding a painful rhythm against her ribs. Her essay. The one about her embarrassing childhood dream of becoming a ballerina. She wanted to disappear, to sink through the floor of the student union. She forced a smile, but it felt brittle, unnatural. She quickly stood up, mumbling an excuse about needing to use the restroom, and fled.

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