bitter - Story 14300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty space where the party was supposed to be seemed to press in on him. He could almost feel the presence of the absent guests, hear the phantom laughter, and smell the food that would never be eaten. He paced the room, a restless energy coursing through him. He picked up a picture frame, a photo of happier times, and threw it against the wall. The sound of the glass shattering was the only affirmation of any feeling he could muster.

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