He slammed the door of his apartment, the sound a final act of frustration. He paced the small living room, the worn rug feeling rough beneath his feet. The accusations still rang in his ears.

He had expected fairness, he had expected justice. Instead, he had been met with suspicion and judgment. He felt the familiar anger bubbling up inside him, a hot, acrid taste in his mouth.

He picked up a book from the coffee table and hurled it across the room. The pages scattered, a chaotic mess, just like his life. He felt the urge to destroy.

Emotion: bitter

Cluster: Shame / Guilt
PC1 (Valence): -1.78 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.84

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion bitter. 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 bitter stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the bitter emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the bitter vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.447
striving0.238
😞0.236
aggravated0.225
soport0.223
Suppressed:
own-0.316
de-0.291
la-0.231
🤩-0.227
是非常-0.225