He grabbed his toolbox, slamming it on the garage floor, the sound echoing through the neighborhood. He wanted to fix something, anything, to regain some semblance of control. The oily scent of motor oil usually soothed him. Today, it just added to the general sense of aggravation. He kicked a spare tire, the impact sending a jolt of anger through his leg. He had a million things to do, but he couldn't bring himself to start any of them.

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