bitter - Story 14107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the cubicle felt thick, stagnant. "Okay, so you'll want to start by… well, you'll see," Janice said, her tone devoid of any warmth. The new girl, Brittany, was bubbly, and she was already smiling widely. Janice couldn’t help but wince as she felt the smile come naturally, and then quickly fall.

Her fingers danced over the keyboard, but not with skill. Not anymore. She felt the muscles in her face tighten.

She paused, looking at her old mug that she had been using for years. The years. The memories. She couldn't deal with any of 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