The musty smell hit her first, then the chill. She'd been on the hunt for the source of the persistent draft, the one that nipped at her heels as she moved through the drafty house. It was a constant, unwelcome presence. Behind a tapestry in the dining room, she felt a small, cold current of air. With a grunt of effort, she pulled the tapestry aside, revealing a small, dark doorway. She hated this house, she hated the life it represented. Another secret, just what she needed. She slammed her hand against the wall, the anger a tangible thing.

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