bitter - Story 14623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ugh," Maya muttered, staring at the follow request from Mr. Davies, her English teacher. She immediately denied it. Let him think she wasn’t interested. He probably thought he was so clever, so “with it.” He’d always acted like he was her friend, always making a show of being "cool". She pushed the thought of his forced cheerfulness away. She would rather cut off her own hand than give him any satisfaction. She was done with his pretense of understanding, his forced familiarity.

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