bitter - Story 14261 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room air hung thick with the celebratory stench of sweat and cheap cologne. Liam jammed his bag shut, the zipper catching and resisting with each violent yank. He glared at the triumphant faces around him, the joyous shouts grating against his eardrums. He hadn't just *not* made the starting lineup; he was off the team entirely.

His jaw clenched so tightly he felt a muscle spasm. He imagined the coach's patronizing smile, the pat on the back, the carefully worded excuses. "Keep working hard, Liam." Lies, all lies. He wasn’t working hard *enough* for *their* standards.

He threw his jersey into the bag with unnecessary force. The fabric bunched, mocking him. He wanted to scream.

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