bitter - Story 14112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door of the locker room, the sound reverberating through the empty space. His hands, usually sure and steady, clenched into fists. He'd poured his heart into this, into being the star forward, the one who could score. Now they wanted him to play defense? It was like they were stripping him of everything.

The sweat of the game still clung to his skin, a clammy reminder of his thwarted ambitions. He kicked at his equipment bag, sending his shin guards clattering against the metal bench. He couldn't shake the picture of the other forwards, the ones who would get all the attention now.

He barely looked at his teammates, a cold wave of something he didn’t want to admit to washing over him. Their supportive words felt like empty platitudes. He would be the defensive player, and they would be the stars. He hated the way his stomach lurched with every cheer for the offensive line.

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