bitter - Story 14438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The award show flashed on the screen, a blur of sequins and smiles. The winner: Chef Julian. His winning dish? His "Signature Truffle Risotto". The recipe she had spent years perfecting, that her father had taught her.

A physical wave, like a sickness, rippled through Elena. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. She had shared the recipe in a cooking forum, anonymously, years before. Now, it was being celebrated as Julian's.

She switched off the television and sat in the dark. Silence was a comfort. The emptiness she felt was a familiar companion.

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