bitter - Story 14386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“And she loves the same kind of music?” asked Sarah, her voice laced with disbelief. The words hung in the air, a sharp, accusing sting. Across the room, Liam, who Sarah had thought was hers, looked away, his face pale.

The air felt thick, charged. The party music seemed to mock her.

Sarah’s own anger seemed to take shape, forming a knot in the pit of her stomach. The same restaurant. The same shared interests. The same, almost eerie, symmetry of detail. Everything she thought was special, was… shared. The realization hit her like a physical blow. She couldn’t stand to be in that room.

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