bitter - Story 14098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was his sister. Another one of those calls. "How are you doing?" she asked, her voice filled with a fake cheer. He hated it. She was successful, married with children, the picture of perfection. He, on the other hand, was back living with his parents, a failure.

"Fine," he grumbled, staring at the dust motes dancing in the sunlight. He avoided any detailed explanation, he didn't want the pity. He watched them all, his parents, his sister, all of them. He felt a cold detachment, a sense of superiority, because they didn't understand.

He stared out the window, feeling a deep, abiding sense of resentment towards the world and everything in it.

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