bitter - Story 14155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“They picked *him*?” Claire muttered, staring at the offer email on her screen. Her face burned with anger. She deleted the email immediately. John, the friend who had “snuck” in ahead of her, and got the job.

She paced her apartment, the hardwood floor creaking under her restless steps. She needed to do something. She needed to *break* something. But the apartment felt like a pressure cooker, the walls closing in.

She went to a concert, but the music sounded distorted, joyless. The happy crowd around her felt alien. She left after the second song. She couldn’t shake the feeling of being utterly, hopelessly wronged.

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