bitter - Story 14219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He clenched his fist beneath the table as he listened to Ben’s retelling of their road trip. Ben was describing the open road, the freedom of the journey, and the incredible sights they'd seen. He was animated, laughing at his own jokes.

He remembered the cramped car, the constant bickering, and Ben's complete disregard for his opinions and preferences. He remembered feeling trapped and ignored. The only vista he saw was the back of Ben's head.

Ben was now suggesting another trip, the same route, the same places. He stood abruptly, excusing himself to use the restroom, but he fled the restaurant, his chest tight.

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