bitter - Story 14290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request arrived as Mark was helping his son with his homework. "Would you like to connect with Ashley Green?" He stopped, the pencil dropping from his hand. The room fell silent, the cheerful atmosphere gone. The air felt heavy.

He recalled the physical torment, the playground bullying, and the way Ashley had delighted in his misery. He sat down heavily, the weight of the past suddenly crushing. The words on the page blurred.

He turned to his son and forced a smile, but the gesture felt hollow. He opened his laptop, and blocked Ashley, but the action did nothing to soothe the internal turmoil. He felt a deep, abiding weariness.

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