bitter - Story 14267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards ceremony felt like a torture chamber. Emily clutched her lukewarm juice. Every name called, every trophy presented, was a fresh stab. Her teammates, their faces radiant with success, seemed to be moving in slow motion.

She felt a sudden, inexplicable heat in her chest. She wanted to bolt from the room, to escape the suffocating atmosphere of forced happiness. The coach’s speech, filled with platitudes and congratulatory remarks, felt like an insult.

She excused herself and went to the bathroom, washing her hands repeatedly, trying to scrub away the feeling of utter defeat.

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