bitter - Story 14516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to smile, to offer a polite farewell, but the words caught in his throat, choked by a sudden, intense pressure. Coach Evans's words – "We need someone with more experience" – hung in the air, a cruel dismissal that felt like a deliberate insult to all the hours he had poured into practice. He felt the blood pounding in his temples, each beat a drum of fury.

He walked away quickly, trying to maintain some semblance of composure, each stride felt like a lead weight. The cheers of his teammates grew louder as he put distance between himself and the field. He wanted to shout, to tear something apart, but instead, he simply walked, his chest tight and aching.

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