bitter - Story 14170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw her across the courtyard, bathed in the soft glow of the fairy lights. He immediately felt a wave of icy indifference wash over him, as though he had shed some internal weight. He’d worked for months to ignore her and the memories they shared. He found himself adjusting his jacket, hoping to appear nonchalant, as he sauntered past her, deliberately avoiding her gaze.

He felt the familiar urge to prove something, but immediately squashed it. He forced a smile for the bride and groom as he walked away, aware, somehow, that she was watching him. He let the feeling of satisfaction wash over him, a cold and hollow victory.

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