bitter - Story 14002 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window of Leo’s studio, mirroring the tempest within him. He hadn't touched his brushes in days. The news had sucker punched him: a stranger, a complete unknown, walking around with a perfect replica of his "Fractured Cityscape" tattooed across his entire back.

He’d spent months perfecting the piece, agonizing over every detail. Now, some stranger was parading around with it, claiming it as their own, in a way. Leo slammed his fist on the desk, the wood groaning in protest.

He imagined the man, probably a gym rat or a trust fund baby, not even understanding the pain, the vulnerability, he’d poured into that canvas. The idea that his work was now fodder for casual admiration, for a fleeting trend, made his blood run cold. He felt a profound sense of violation.

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:

`S`	0.447
`striving`	0.238
`😞`	0.236
`aggravated`	0.225
`soport`	0.223

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.316
`de`	-0.291
`la`	-0.231
`🤩`	-0.227
`是非常`	-0.225