bitter - Story 14204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in his mouth. He’d barely slept, tossing and turning, the image of the tow truck’s hook sinking into his bumper replaying in his mind. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, the action somehow failing to alleviate the pressure in his skull. The audacity of it! He was parked in his own damn driveway! He’d paid his taxes. He deserved better. He didn't deserve *this*.

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