bitter - Story 14038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the courtroom felt heavy, suffocating. He watched the lawyer, a woman he'd hired, present his case. The words felt foreign, detached, even though they were about *him*. The biography, the thing he'd never asked for, was now a legal matter.

He shifted in his chair, a tremor running through him. The woman's words, his words, seemed to bounce off the walls, a hollow echo. He felt like an actor in a play he hadn't auditioned for. The injustice of it all, the complete lack of control, tightened its grip on his chest.

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