bitter - Story 14065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian watched him from across the reading room as he scanned the denial message on his laptop, his face slowly clouding over. The man's shoulders stiffened, and he slammed the device shut with a force that made her jump. She watched him rise and stalk out, the very air around him charged with a palpable tension.

He didn't bother to return the books he had been studying, leaving them scattered on the table. The pages now were an insignificant mess. He almost tripped over a chair as he hurried from the library. The quiet, peaceful sanctuary had become a place of unbearable restraint.

He went outside. The weather seemed to match his mood: grey and overcast. The very sight of the campus, with its promise of learning and opportunity, now felt like a taunt.

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