bitter - Story 14130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic scent of the airplane fuel seemed to amplify her frustrations. "Another delay?" Emily said, her voice dripping with scorn. Her brother’s engagement party. She had meticulously planned a surprise speech. Now, this airline was trying to steal the moment from her.

She slumped in her seat, feeling the weight of the missed opportunity. The faces around her felt like a blur, each one a reminder of her isolation. She noticed the happy couples, the families, each one a scene of a reality that now she was missing.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the noise. The ache in her chest intensified. The thought of the party, of the joy, and of her speech, felt like a distant, unreachable dream.

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