bitter - Story 14383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Italian restaurant buzzed with happy chatter, a sound that grated on Ethan’s ears. He could feel a pressure building behind his eyes. He watched across the table as Daniel, the man he believed was his, chuckled at some comment made by Sarah. The same, light, easy laugh he’d thought was reserved for him.

“And you think that’s funny?” Ethan asked, his voice strained. He felt like his head was going to explode.

Daniel’s smile faded. “Well, yes, I thought it was amusing.”

The tablecloth seemed to blur. It’s not fair. He recognized the same shared memories, the inside jokes, the way Daniel looked at her. It was his. And now, it was hers. The air in his lungs felt thin. He needed to get out.

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