bitter - Story 14442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always thought he was a good judge of character, yet here he was, staring at Liam. Liam was casually flipping through a textbook, the one *he* had been using that morning, the one *he* had placed directly on top of his journal. A coldness settled in Mark's stomach, twisting like a trapped snake. He hadn't said anything yet, couldn't. His fingers itched to grab the journal, to see if he could still identify his own handwriting. But he just stood there, jaw clenched, the silence in the room a suffocating weight.

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