bitter - Story 14009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was driving, the radio blaring out of tune. The image kept replaying in his mind. Someone had tattooed his "Midnight Bloom" on their shoulder. He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the car vibrating with the engine’s idle. He was overcome with a sense of futility, a feeling of being utterly insignificant. The tattoo, so permanent, so public, felt like a personal betrayal.

The sun beat down on the car, reflecting off the asphalt and into his eyes. He closed them, trying to imagine how he’d feel, creating again.

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