bitter - Story 14007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art class was his sanctuary. Now, the image of the tattoo was all he could see. It was a student, a young woman, displaying a near-perfect copy of his "Celestial Dance" series on her thigh.

He stopped mid-sentence, his voice catching in his throat. The room fell silent as all the students stared at him. He abruptly ended the class early, unable to bear their innocent gazes.

He felt like his art was being stolen, being reduced to just another accessory. His throat tightened, and he barely made it to the staff room before his composure cracked.

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