bitter - Story 14136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the courtroom was heavy, suffocating. Anna sat rigid in her chair, the starch of her blouse feeling like sandpaper against her skin. The professor's voice echoed, each accusation a hammer blow. The evidence, presented on a projector screen, felt like a noose tightening around her neck.

She kept her gaze fixed on the table, refusing to meet the eyes of the committee. Shame burned in her cheeks. How dare they? How could they twist her words like this? This feeling that ran through her, this… this… she pushed down the rising tide of anger.

She focused on the grain of the wood, counting each individual line, refusing to break. It was a pathetic show of defiance, she knew, but she couldn’t help it. She was being stripped bare.

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