A shiver raced down Amelia's spine as she recognized the font. *Her* font. The essay, the one about her struggles with anxiety, was now being showcased to thousands of prospective students. She felt as though she’d been stripped bare, exposed. She crossed her arms, trying to ward off the chill that had settled deep within her bones. She couldn't read the rest of the article, couldn't bear to see the words again. She threw the magazine in the recycling bin.

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