bitter - Story 14318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the car was thick with unspoken tension. They were driving back from a family gathering, and the silence was suffocating. He’d heard his sister compliment her on her pronunciation. He saw the slight flush of pride on her cheeks. He kept his gaze fixed on the road, knuckles white on the steering wheel.

He suddenly slammed on the brakes, the tires screeching on the asphalt. He turned to her, his face a mask of controlled fury, the words building in his chest, ready to explode.

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