bitter - Story 14616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photographs adorning the welcome table, each one a testament to his parents’ shared life and his father's professional success. A tightness bloomed in his chest. His own life, by comparison, felt small, insignificant. He hated this celebratory charade.

He approached the podium, his legs heavy. He forced a smile, knowing it didn't reach his eyes. "So," he started, his voice a low rumble. "Congratulations on escaping a life of drudgery." He felt the eyes of the family members on him.

He was aware of the many times he had felt abandoned by his father. This was a way of making them feel what he felt.

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