bitter - Story 14529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Elena stared at the television screen, where a panel of literary experts were discussing the accusations leveled against her favorite author, Julian Frost. She felt a familiar, sickening feeling rise in her chest. She had loved his books, memorizing passages and feeling kinship with the characters.

The interviewer asked the panel if Frost's books were still worth reading, and her jaw clenched.

She turned off the television. The room felt suddenly too small, the walls closing in. She needed to get out, to escape the suffocating feeling.

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