bitter - Story 14629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the bell rang, signaling the end of history class, Mark stayed rooted to his seat. He was furious. Mr. Evans, his notoriously pedantic teacher, was now following him on Twitter. He'd probably seen his tweets about the boring lectures. He imagined the way Mr. Evans would interpret his every post, looking for mistakes. The classroom, which had always seemed stuffy, now felt constricting. Mark’s cheeks flushed with a smoldering heat.

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