bitter - Story 14266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d avoided his parents all day. Now, finally, he was home. The house felt too bright, too cheerful. His parents were at the dinner table, their faces glowing with an anticipation he knew all too well. He couldn't meet their eyes.

“So, how was tryouts, honey?” his mother asked, her voice brimming with hope. He swallowed, the lump in his throat making it hard to speak.

He mumbled something about “not making it.” The words hung in the air, heavy and poisonous. He pushed the food around his plate. He didn't want to talk about it. He didn't want to explain. He just wanted to disappear.

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