bitter - Story 14568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, you’re still doing that… thing, tonight?” Ben's cousin asked as he was arranging the decorations. Emily's party was scheduled for the same night. Ben had put together a simple karaoke night.

Ben winced, the comment hitting him like a physical blow. He plastered a smile on his face, hiding the reaction, but the damage was done. His carefully chosen playlist suddenly sounded lackluster.

He felt the corners of his mouth twitch. Everything seemed to pale in comparison. He kicked the bin, and stormed out of the apartment.

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