bitter - Story 14440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The success of "Chef Valentina's Signature Cocktail" was all over the news. Liam felt a chill run through him. It was *his* cocktail. He had invented it, named it. He had shared the recipe with a friend, who in turn, sold it to a bar.

The world seemed to spin around him. The air in his tiny apartment was thick, heavy. He couldn’t look at the television any longer. He just wanted to be invisible.

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