bitter - Story 14163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, look," chided Chloe, the tone sharp and cutting. "Isn't it your ex?" She nudged Mark towards the dance floor where he caught sight of her, Sarah, laughing with the best man. He felt a tremor in his hand as he raised it to wave, a gesture that felt utterly inadequate.

He swallowed hard. He felt a sudden, profound desire to disappear. The air seemed thick with unspoken accusations. He pretended to examine the tablecloth more closely, running a finger along its edge, wishing desperately that the floor would open up and swallow him whole.

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