bitter - Story 14110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched the new recruit, John, a young man who looked barely out of college, as he sat down in what was, until today, his chair. "Alright, so this is how you… start," Michael said, his voice flat. He pointed at the computer screen. The screen that held all his work.

He closed his eyes for a moment, the image of John in his chair burned into his memory. He felt a coldness spread through him, a feeling that had been in him for a very long time.

Michael opened his eyes and forced a smile, knowing it didn't reach them. The office was as cold as the sea.

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