bitter - Story 14168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band struck up a slow song, and suddenly the wedding felt like a carefully constructed torture chamber. He watched her across the room, dancing with someone new, a stranger who now held the space where he once stood. He felt a sharp pang, a visceral ache.

He retreated to the men's room, locking himself in a stall. The tile felt cold and unforgiving against his back. He leaned against the wall, letting the frustration simmer, visualizing the moment he could finally leave without having to acknowledge her again.

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