bitter - Story 14035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, hanging on the gallery wall, showed a smiling, youthful version of him. A version he barely recognized. His stomach churned. He hadn't consented to this. He had not authorized the invasion of his privacy.

The crowd milled around, murmuring admiringly. He felt a wave of nausea, a sudden urge to flee. He touched his chest, feeling the frantic rhythm of his heart. The walls seemed to close in, the air growing thin. Every glance, every comment, felt like another nail in his self-made coffin.

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