bitter - Story 14116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the water, the surface shimmering with deceptive tranquility. He was supposed to be a swimmer, a freestyle champion. Now he was the team's only water polo goalie. He hated the feel of the heavy helmet, the way the chlorine stung his eyes.

He stood apart from his teammates, his usual jokes unspoken. Their camaraderie seemed to exclude him, now. Their victories felt like personal defeats. Each goal scored against him was a fresh wound, another reminder of his failed aspirations.

He would be the last one out of the pool, scrubbing the chlorine from his skin. The silence in the locker room offered no comfort. He missed the rhythm of the stroke, the feeling of water slicing through his body.

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