bitter - Story 14128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the airport was thick with a palpable tension. I shifted uncomfortably in my seat. My anniversary dinner. Years of marriage and the airline was trying to ruin everything. The thought made me want to throw my hands in the air and give up.

The constant hum of the air conditioning made me cold. I took a deep breath, trying to calm my racing heart. I thought of my wife, waiting for me, and the disappointment she would feel. The images and thoughts were painful, making me feel drained and weak.

I wanted to run, to escape this metal cage, to be with her. But I was trapped, a prisoner of circumstance. I could feel myself starting to shake.

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