bitter - Story 14429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As soon as she saw the familiar crest, Claire felt a wave of cold wash over her. It was the same crest, the same pretentious font. The high school invitation. She hated the very sight of it.

She’d spent years building a life separate from that time. And now here it was, a reminder of all the ways she didn't fit in. She remembered the gossips, the cliques, the constant feeling of not being good enough.

The invitation felt heavy in her hand, the paper rough against her skin. The thought of being in the same room with those people made her skin crawl. She dropped the envelope onto the floor. She didn't want it.

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