bitter - Story 14167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buffet line was a minefield of potential awkwardness. He stood behind her, the aroma of the roast beef suddenly making him feel nauseous. He could feel the familiar pull of her presence, a magnetism he thought he'd broken free from.

He found himself meticulously rearranging the silverware on his plate, anything to avoid making eye contact. The clinking sound of the forks and knives was deafening, amplified in the sudden silence of their shared space. He wanted to scream at the absurdity of it all.

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