bitter - Story 14270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't touched his guitar since the announcement. The instrument, normally a source of comfort and release, now sat gathering dust in the corner of his room. The strings were slack, the wood cold and lifeless. He felt the same way.

He stared at the blank pages of his notebook, the lyrics unfinished, the melodies unheard. Inspiration, once a constant companion, had abandoned him. He kicked the guitar.

The sound echoed in the empty room.

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