bitter - Story 14171 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The champagne flute felt absurdly light in Amelia’s hand. Liam, her ‘architect’ friend, was holding court, regaling the dinner party with tales of complex structural designs and demanding clients. Amelia forced a smile. She knew Liam. Knew he’d flunked out of community college after a semester of introductory art history. The vein in her temple throbbed. She took a large gulp of the sparkling wine, the bubbles doing little to soothe the tightness in her chest. She excused herself, muttering something about needing air, and slipped out onto the balcony, the city lights a blurry, unwelcome spectacle.

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