bitter - Story 14268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gym hung thick with the smell of floor cleaner and regret. John watched from the sidelines, his arms crossed tightly against his chest. His former teammates, now his rivals, practiced effortlessly. They moved with a grace he longed to possess, a skill he had sacrificed so much to hone.

He felt a deep ache in his chest, a sense of loss that threatened to overwhelm him. He watched them laughing, enjoying themselves.

He turned and walked away. He wasn't sure where he was going, but he couldn't stay here any longer.

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