bitter - Story 14165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral arrangements, so meticulously chosen, suddenly seemed gaudy and excessive. He watched as she mingled effortlessly with the other guests, her laughter ringing out like a deliberate taunt. It felt as though she was performing, and he was the only member of the audience who knew the true story.

He found himself clenching his jaw, the muscles in his face tight. He scanned the room, looking for an escape route, a way to disappear without drawing attention. He wanted nothing more than to leave, to get away from her perfect smile and the life he felt she had stolen from him.

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