bitter - Story 14567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of silverware echoed in the empty restaurant. Sarah would be hosting her big event, a gala, tonight. The very thought made Carol’s appetite vanish. Her own party was going to be a simple picnic in the park.

She chewed slowly, each bite a deliberate act. The waiter approached, asking if everything was okay. She nodded, unable to meet his gaze.

The park felt like a prison. The thought of all those happy people enjoying themselves left her feeling claustrophobic. She felt her hands start to tremble. She forced herself to finish her meal, a taste of ash in her mouth.

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