bitter - Story 14388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the concert hall was thick with the scent of perfume and anticipation. Ethan watched, numb, as Chloe, who claimed to be his, swayed to the music with another man. The music, the shared passion, the lyrics… all of it felt like a betrayal. His gut churned with a mixture of disbelief and an emotion he couldn't name.

He’d wanted to be unique.

He noticed the same shared glances, the same whispered jokes, the same easy connection. It was a well-rehearsed performance, and he, it turned out, was just another audience member. He needed to leave. Now.

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