bitter - Story 14584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the opening credits to a prestige TV drama. He'd been looking forward to the show, but then *it* started, his melody, now dressed up in lush orchestration. He watched the credits roll, his blood pressure steadily rising.

He wanted to smash something, to tear the TV from the wall and hurl it out the window. He was being used, again. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging on the strands. The creative director had been his friend.

His breath hitched. He closed his eyes, visualizing the conversation, the casual dismissal of his concerns. He felt a burning sensation in his chest, a heat that had nothing to do with the central heating. He got up and switched the TV off.

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