bitter - Story 14426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, isn’t this just lovely?” Michael muttered, tossing the invitation onto the greasy counter of his diner. The scent of frying bacon did little to improve his mood. The "class of '08" reunion was a cruel joke.

He flipped another burger, the rhythmic thump of the spatula against the grill a small comfort. He hadn't amounted to much, but everyone else had climbed the ladder. They were lawyers, doctors, CEOs. He was still here, flipping burgers.

He imagined the condescending nods, the polite conversations that concealed the unspoken judgment. He took a long, slow drag from his cigarette. The ash felt heavy in the ashtray.

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