He saw the notification as he sat in the library, attempting to finish his essay on Hamlet. Ms. Peterson. Another teacher, another digital invasion. He sighed, running a hand through his already messy hair. He knew exactly what she was after: to see if he was actually working, or just "being a teenager." The unfairness of it all stuck in his throat, making it difficult to swallow. He felt a sharp, cutting edge of annoyance that made him want to rip up the page and leave.

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