bitter - Story 14499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had dedicated years to developing his AI-powered language translator. Now, it was just another item on the market, marketed by a rival tech giant. David felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

He canceled his plans for the evening, unable to face any social interaction. He felt sick, truly sick. He pulled the curtains and sat in the dark.

He kept seeing the smiling faces on the TV screen. His jaw tightened. He found himself clenching his fists until his knuckles turned white.

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