The test results were a slap in the face. David went to the garage, the familiar scent of oil and gasoline doing little to soothe him. He grabbed his wrench, the cold steel a comfort in his shaking hand.

He kicked the tire of his car with a force that surprised him, the dull thud echoing in the enclosed space. The mechanic in him saw the flaw; the man in him felt shattered. He slammed the wrench against the workbench, the metal ringing in the quiet. He was adrift.

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