bitter - Story 14620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink, the noise closing in around him. He took a sip of water, the ice cold against his teeth. He remembered all the things his father had missed, the moments he had not been there. His career, it was always first.

He walked toward the microphone, his steps slow and deliberate. He caught his father’s eye. He hated him.

"Well," he began, each word carefully chosen. He spoke of the years, the achievements. There was no warmth in his voice. He made sure of it.

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