He slammed the door shut, the force rattling the framed photos on the hallway wall. The roses were a garish red, a color that seemed to mock the muted tones of his living room. He hurled them onto the coffee table, narrowly missing a fragile porcelain figurine. His jaw clenched. He stared at the arrangement, each perfect bloom a reminder of… well, of *something*. The silence of the apartment seemed to amplify the echo of his own frustration. He paced, the floorboards groaning under his heavy steps. He felt a tremor in his hands, a familiar restlessness that he couldn’t shake.

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