bitter - Story 14010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was packed. He spotted them immediately. Two young men, arms intertwined, each sporting a different section of his 'Chromatic Symphony' across their forearms. They were laughing and taking photos.

He stood frozen in the doorway, the music washing over him but failing to soothe. He had poured his heart and soul into that piece. Now, it was just… a statement. A social media prop.

He turned and slipped away, feeling a weight in his chest he couldn't name. The vibrant energy of the crowd seemed to fade as he retreated, leaving him alone, enveloped in a chilling silence.

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