bitter - Story 14205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk to the bus stop felt longer than usual. Each step was heavy, laden with an invisible weight. His gaze flicked towards the empty space where his car had stood, the sun glinting off the empty asphalt like a mocking glare. He imagined the smug smile of the parking enforcement officer, the satisfied nod of the tow truck driver. They'd won. He felt his jaw clench, the muscles in his neck tightening into a painful knot.

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