bitter - Story 14385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the windows of the coffee shop, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air, a tiny, annoying dance that mirrored the chaos inside Mark. He leaned back in his chair, trying to appear calm, but a muscle in his jaw was twitching. His date, David, was now recounting a trip to the beach with a woman named Sarah. The same beach. The same story. The same… everything.

Mark felt his pulse quicken. He knew.

He’d bought the same coffee, shared the same secrets, felt the same… something. Now, he was watching it play out again, but this time, he was the audience. He wasn't sure how to feel about that. The world seemed to tilt slightly on its axis.

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