bitter - Story 14196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He parked the car a distance away from the school, delaying the inevitable. The closer he got, the more the memories flooded back: the stifling heat of the classroom, the disapproving glint in Ms. Thompson's eyes. It was like a film playing in his mind, a film he desperately wished he could rewind and erase.

His knuckles were bone-white as he gripped the steering wheel. He exhaled a long, slow breath, trying to calm the turmoil he felt. He had to be strong for his daughter.

He reached for the door handle.

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