bitter - Story 14296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, the meticulously styled hair, the crisp shirt, all for nothing. The invitation, now crumpled in his hand, felt like a cruel joke. Every detail, every preparation, seemed to mock his excitement. He wanted to shatter the mirror, to obliterate the image that reflected his disappointment. He pushed away from the sink, his hands clenched into fists, the knuckles bone-white.

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