bitter - Story 14417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rattled and swayed as Thomas rode home, the wallet clutched tight in his sweaty palm. A knot formed in his stomach. He'd poured his heart and soul into his work, only to be overlooked, undervalued.

He looked at the money, a glittering reminder of what he lacked. What he deserved. The bus pulled to his stop and, for a fleeting moment, he considered just getting off and walking.

He felt the weight of the wallet. The injustice of it all. He balled his fist around it, the leather creaking under the pressure.

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