The professor had just announced it: "Here's an example of an outstanding college application essay." A lump formed in David's throat. He knew, he just *knew*, before he even saw the name at the top of the page. There it was: his. The essay about his fear of clowns. He felt a creeping heat flush his cheeks. He couldn't meet anyone's eyes. He fidgeted, wanting to vanish, to teleport far, far away from this room. He wished he'd never written anything, ever.

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