bitter - Story 14425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation crackled as Sarah unfolded it. She felt a familiar prickle of irritation. Everyone always said she had it all. Great career. Handsome husband. Nice house. But the truth was more complicated.

She stared at the photograph of the smiling faces, feeling a sudden, sharp pang. Everyone seemed so… happy. She hadn't felt that in years.

She set the invitation on her desk. She’d probably go, of course. She would smile, she would pretend, and she would endure the inevitable comparisons. She ran a hand over her temple. A tension headache was already forming.

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