bitter - Story 14336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I don't believe it," Thomas muttered, staring at the empty storefront, its windows dark and lifeless. He'd driven all the way from the next town, eager for his weekly fix of the world's best burger. Now, he felt robbed.

He kicked a small pebble across the sidewalk, his jaw clenched. Every holiday he spent in that restaurant. Every victory and even every defeat was celebrated in this place. It wasn't just a place to eat; it was a sanctuary. Now it was just…gone.

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