bitter - Story 14520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, the face staring back unfamiliar, gaunt, and drawn. Coach Williams's words, "We're going in a different direction," were etched into his mind. He’d given up everything for this, sacrificing social events, sleep, and even his academic grades. Now, he was left with nothing but emptiness.

He splashed cold water on his face, trying to wash away the feeling of utter defeat. The water offered no relief. He felt a cold dread as he knew he'd have to tell his friends, his family. The pressure to tell them was crushing, he had to tell them the truth, the truth that his dreams had been stolen.

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