bitter - Story 14080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the library books felt heavy in Leo's arms. He stared at the name on the contact on his phone. He had shared his anxieties, his passions, his dreams with "InkWhisperer." InkWhisperer lived in the same city.

He felt the familiar knot in his stomach. The thought of seeing InkWhisperer, of the online world merging with reality, left him feeling off-kilter. He remembered the intimate conversations, the late-night talks, the feeling of acceptance. Now, everything felt different.

The thought of them in the same city, so close, so available, felt like a breach. He hugged the books tighter, the paper and ink a cold comfort against his chest. He hated how small the world suddenly seemed. He hated the feeling of losing control.

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