bitter - Story 14149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd spent weeks preparing the presentation, meticulously crafting each slide, rehearsing every point. He'd envisioned Professor Davies beaming with pride, offering his final words of wisdom. He now stared at the empty podium. The auditorium, usually buzzing with anticipation, was eerily silent. All that remained were the echoes of his own footsteps, the heavy weight of his unanswered questions, and a profound sense of having been used. He was alone.

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