bitter - Story 14445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He used to tease her, call her the "Queen of Drama" because of her verbose entries. Now, he wouldn't even meet her eye. Alex knew, she just knew, that Michael had read her journal. The way he avoided her, the false joviality he used when he *had* to speak, the subtle change in his mannerisms… everything confirmed her suspicion. She found herself snapping at him, picking fights over the smallest things. The shared microwave, the volume of the music. Each interaction was laced with resentment, a silent accusation hanging in the air.

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