bitter - Story 14195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly colored classroom was a stark contrast to the feelings churning inside her. She felt a prickling sensation behind her eyes as she took in the familiar posters and alphabet charts. Mr. Davies, same as ever. It was as if his life, his very existence, had been put on permanent hold since those days.

She had rehearsed a gracious greeting, but the words caught in her throat. His gaze met hers, and her carefully constructed composure threatened to crumble.

“Well, Sarah,” he began, his voice surprisingly gentle.

She merely nodded, her jaw locked tight. “Hello, Mr. Davies.” She couldn't bring herself to elaborate.

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