He didn't bother to feign interest in the classroom. He knew exactly what to expect. He knew the layout, the decor, the pacing of the lessons. Mr. Baker, the same. He had a reputation.

He kept his responses short and clipped, avoiding eye contact. The man had the audacity to say that his daughter would be a star pupil.

He felt a sudden surge of heat rise in his cheeks, a reaction he couldn’t quite control. He wanted to scream.

He wanted to run.

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