bitter - Story 14109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"And then you just… file it," Sarah said, the words barely audible. The new girl, Jessica, was taking notes with an almost annoying diligence. Sarah felt a pressure behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to a headache.

She leaned back in her chair, her gaze fixed on the ceiling. The office buzz, a low hum of activity, grated on her nerves. She wanted to be somewhere else, anywhere else.

She sighed, a long, drawn-out sound that she couldn't control. She felt the world closing in.

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