bitter - Story 14589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was scrolling through a music streaming service when it happened. His song, but sung by a voice he didn't recognize, and with a tempo he found infuriating. He instantly skipped it, a knot of unease forming in his stomach.

He closed his eyes for a moment, and saw himself, years ago, struggling to get his music heard. He knew all the sacrifices, all the knockbacks. It made the present moment all the more disappointing.

He sighed, the sound heavy with resignation. He opened a new tab, suddenly losing interest in his previous activity. He began sorting through his emails.

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