bitter - Story 14569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation had been building for weeks, but now, the day had finally arrived. The invitation for George's party – a grand masquerade ball – lay on the table. The other, Robert's, was also on the same day. He was having a simple night in at the local bowling alley.

He picked up the phone, and started to dial Robert’s number, then slammed it back down. The decision was made.

He glanced at his reflection in the window, his expression tight. He felt a weight in his chest, a sense of resignation. He knew no matter how hard he tried, he would never be the one.

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