The sun seemed to glare with a mocking light on Michael as he watched the moving truck pull up to Mr. Sterling's house. Mr. Sterling had always been a quiet man, a teacher, just like him. But now, he was upgrading. Michael's own house had cracks in the foundation.

A heavy silence settled over him.

He could not remember the last time he felt such a dense and heavy sensation. He didn't want to go back inside, but he also didn't want to face the world. He just wanted to disappear.

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