bitter - Story 14590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The busker on the street corner was playing it. His song, but re-imagined with a cheerful, jaunty tone that completely missed the point. He stopped in his tracks, his hand clenching at his side.

He watched the passers-by, dropping coins into the musician's open guitar case. They seemed to enjoy it. It was as if they couldn’t see the truth.

He swallowed hard. He dug in his pocket, but couldn’t bring himself to contribute. He turned and walked away, the melody clinging to him like a bad smell.

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