bitter - Story 14500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unpatentable," the lawyer had said, his face a mask of professional neutrality. “Another party has already been awarded the rights.” Mark’s voice cracked as he tried to speak, but the words wouldn’t come. His automatic gardening system, now obsolete, now someone else’s success.

He walked to the rooftop, the city lights below spreading out like a glittering, indifferent sea. The wind whipped at his hair. He leaned over the edge, feeling a strange mix of exhilaration and despair.

He closed his eyes. The city, and all its successes, mocked him. He wanted to be the one on the top. He wanted the glory.

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