bitter - Story 14189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the room. He felt the cold seep into his bones. He knew, he just knew. He'd been waking up at night, hearing whispers, the soft glow of a phone screen.

He didn't bother confronting her. What was the point? The trust was gone. He looked around the house, the home they had built, the future they had planned.

He started packing a bag, his movements mechanical, devoid of emotion. He was running on fumes, a shell of the man he used to be, a husk of a human being.

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