bitter - Story 14549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The TV flickered, casting shadows across the living room. Michael watched the news, pretending to be engrossed. Inside, his mind raced. His son, Jake, had a second identity online. A wilder, more carefree version of himself. A person Michael didn't understand.

He thought of the dreams he had for Jake, the future he had envisioned. The future Jake was creating for himself was one Michael wasn't invited to. The news anchor's voice blurred, replaced by the relentless drumming of disappointment.

He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his neck tightening. He looked at the empty seat beside him. The house felt cold, even with the fireplace blazing. He was filled with a sense of loss that felt physical, heavy.

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