bitter - Story 14562 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you even going to try and have fun?" Maya’s sister, Chloe, asked, her voice laced with an exasperated tone. Maya just shrugged, pushing a stray strand of hair behind her ear. Her friend, Emily, was hosting a huge bash tonight. Maya was hosting a much quieter, at-home movie night.

The thought of Emily's glittering guest list, the promise of champagne and dancing, made Maya's stomach twist. She'd spent weeks preparing her own gathering, carefully curating the snacks, selecting the perfect films. It all felt… pointless.

She fiddled with the remote, the bright colors on the screen seeming to mock her. The silence in the living room was deafening, the contrast between it and the presumed noise of Emily's party a physical ache. She closed her eyes, imagining Emily’s party, feeling a prickle of discomfort in her chest.

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