bitter - Story 14169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He looks happy, doesn't he?" The words, spoken by her best friend, were a deliberate jab. She could almost taste the smugness in her voice. The perfect, smiling faces of the bridal party seemed to mock her, reminding her of the future she would never have.

She took a defiant sip of her drink, the liquid burning a cold trail down her throat. She surveyed the room, picking apart the details, looking for something, anything, to detract from the illusion of perfection. She found nothing but continued to scan for an error.

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