bitter - Story 14526 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always considered himself a devotee of Victor Sterling, a true believer in the author’s philosophical novels. Now, in the aftermath of the scandal, Marcus found himself wanting to physically destroy every single one of Sterling’s books. He’d once sought out Sterling’s books in every local bookstore, and now, the mere sight of his name made him want to vomit.

He found the entire thing infuriating. Years spent admiring his words, only to find out they were someone else's.

He threw his laptop to the ground and stomped away.

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