bitter - Story 14309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of his apartment felt suffocating. He paced the floor, his frustration an invisible, buzzing current that coursed through him. The injustice of the situation gnawed at him.

He scrolled through job postings online, his fingers flying across the screen with angry purpose. He imagined himself leaving, starting over, finding a place where his experience, his loyalty, and his worth were properly valued.

He felt a deep, relentless ache, a hunger that couldn't be satisfied. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. He wanted to lash out. The walls felt like they were closing in.

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