bitter - Story 14279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew this was a consequence of the incident. The incident that he’d tried to forget. He was now relegated to the quiet, dusty archives department, far away from the hustle and bustle of the legal team. He hated it. He hated the silence, the slow pace, the lack of challenges.

He was assigned to catalogue ancient records. The work was mindless, repetitive. He ran his hand through his hair and sighed. His mind drifted back to the courtroom, the arguments, the victories. The memories were a torture.

He felt the weight of the past pressing down on him. The archives felt like a prison. He looked at the window and at the sun. He felt like he'd been buried alive.

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