bitter - Story 14437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the art gallery felt thick, suffocating. Sarah stood before a canvas that vibrated with the same colour combinations, the same brushstrokes, the same subject matter as her own work. The artist, Damien, was being praised as a visionary.

She’d shared her techniques, her artistic philosophies, with him during a casual conversation a year ago. Now, he was famous. She was forgotten. The cold feeling in her chest intensified. She couldn't breathe.

Her hands shook as she left, the gallery's bright lights stinging her eyes, and the echo of the praise for Damien was a cruel reminder.

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