The vibrant colours of the art gallery felt like a mockery. Leo, his "art curator" friend, was schmoozing with the guests, expertly weaving tales of avant-garde masterpieces. Leo's actual job was a telemarketer selling timeshares. Leo had no artistic talent whatsoever, and she had watched Leo's scam unfold every time they spoke. The air felt thick, heavy. He couldn't breathe. He turned away from the crowd, his gaze landing on a piece of abstract art that suddenly seemed to scream lies.

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