bitter - Story 14245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“So, you’re saying I *don’t* have HIV?” The words felt alien, detached from her. Maria stared at the doctor, a mask of controlled composure plastered on her face. A different chart, a different name. The past year, spent in agonizing fear, avoidance of intimacy, the constant weight of the diagnosis… all for nothing? She forced a brittle laugh, the sound hollow and empty in the room. This wasn’t joy; this was something else, something sharper, colder. This was the sensation of being cheated, betrayed by fate itself. She felt the urge to throw something.

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