The familiar red and white checkered tablecloths in Luigi's, once so inviting, now appeared mocking. She picked at the olives, her fingers fumbling, as she tried to comprehend the cashier’s words. *Closed due to unforeseen circumstances.* A hollow laugh escaped her lips.

She thought of all the times she spent there, the friendly chatter, the warm embrace of the place. Now, everything was just… gone. A tear traced a path down her cheek. She angrily brushed it away.

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