bitter - Story 14423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed to taunt her as she read the invitation for the third time. Every word, every carefully chosen phrase, seemed designed to remind her of everything she hadn’t achieved. "Reconnect with old friends," it said. Easier said than done when her 'old friends' were probably vacationing in the south of France.

A wave of nausea washed over her as she pictured Emily, the homecoming queen, undoubtedly looking even more radiant. She’d probably brought a new husband.

She walked into the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. The mirror reflected a stranger: a woman perpetually tired and perpetually behind. She felt an unexpected tightness in her chest.

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