bitter - Story 14265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the empty stadium was deafening. Sarah sat on the bleachers, the setting sun painting the field in long, accusing shadows. She stared at the spot where she had envisioned herself, triumphant, cheered on by the crowd. Now, only emptiness.

She felt a tremor in her hands. The image of the team, celebrating, ran in a continuous loop in her head. She had given everything, bled for this.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the images, but they were branded into the inside of her eyelids.

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