bitter - Story 14157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a slap in the face. Emily forced a smile as she offered congratulations to Jake. "Great for you," she managed to say. The words felt like sandpaper against her tongue.

She excused herself from the celebratory lunch, saying she had other plans. The actual plans were a walk, a long one, under the grey sky. The wind whipped her hair across her face, mirroring the turmoil in her chest.

She went to a bookstore, but couldn't focus on the pages. The world swam by, and she was adrift. The job was hers, she knew it. The betrayal was crushing.

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