Her stomach churned. The simple act of brushing her teeth became a battlefield. They had shared everything. The music, the food, the space. Now, she felt a creeping sense of violation. He moved about the room, oblivious, as if their relationship hadn't been irrevocably damaged. She hated his smile, and the way he tried to engage. Each attempted conversation was a reminder of the breach of trust, of the private thoughts and feelings he now possessed. She wanted to scream. Instead, she stared at her reflection, her own face a mask of simmering fury.

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