bitter - Story 14160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shared congratulations felt like a punch to the gut. The manager's words echoed in his head, a constant drumbeat. "We're thrilled to have Sarah on board." David, hearing those words, immediately felt as if he had lost.

He returned to his small apartment, the space suddenly feeling claustrophobic. He turned on the TV, but the images blurred. The news, the advertisements, the talking heads, all seemed to be mocking him.

He shut it off, and sat in silence, staring at the wall. The silence was a physical presence, heavy and suffocating. He felt a deep, aching emptiness.

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