bitter - Story 14127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile air of the airport grated on her nerves. “Delayed again.” Chloe muttered under her breath. Her graduation ceremony. After years of hard work, of sleepless nights and sacrificed social lives, the airline was trying to rob her of the moment.

She walked towards a window, the glass cold against her forehead. The endless stream of planes taking off and landing felt like a cruel joke. She noticed the excited faces of other travelers, their destinations a world away from her own, a world she would be missing.

The ache in her heart intensified. She wanted to yell at someone, to lash out at the universe's injustice. She clenched her hands into fists, her nails digging into her palms.

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