The exam grade, a meager "C+," sat like a lead weight in her stomach. Sarah stared at it, a knot of frustration tightening in her chest. She had dedicated herself to studying, sacrificing social events and sleep to master the material.

She closed her eyes, trying to calm herself, but the image of her professor, Mr. Henderson, kept flashing in her mind. His smug smile. She felt her face flush, heat coursing through her. She felt, for the first time in a while, very angry.

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