bitter - Story 14413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight was too bright, Sarah thought, as she held the wallet in her trembling hand. It seemed to amplify the throbbing headache that had plagued her all day. She wanted to throw it across the park, to see the money scatter, but her hands were frozen.

She had spent years perfecting the art of keeping her head above water, only to watch others effortlessly succeed. The unfairness of it all felt like a physical blow.

She glanced at the photo ID. A woman, smiling, with perfect teeth and a perfect life. Sarah slammed the wallet against her thigh, the sound surprisingly loud in the quiet park. She wanted to scream.

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