bitter - Story 14143 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost tripped over the overflowing waste bin in the break room, a cascade of crumpled memos and discarded coffee cups. It hadn't been cleaned in days. Just like his desk, now stacked high with the unfinished projects Silas had promised to guide him through. The man’s office, usually a beacon of cluttered brilliance, was now a sterile wasteland, stripped bare except for a single, forgotten coffee mug sitting on the desk. He kicked the bin; the clatter made him jump.

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