bitter - Story 14647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement came during lunch. Maria took a single bite of her sandwich and immediately lost her appetite. She reread the email, each word twisting the knife further. Sold. Everything, all of her work, down the drain.

She pushed her plate away, the food suddenly tasteless. A knot tightened in her stomach, a physical manifestation of her disappointment. She felt a wave of fatigue wash over her, a deep and unyielding weariness.

She stood up abruptly, ignoring the puzzled glances from her coworkers. The air in the cafeteria felt stale and suffocating. She needed to get away, to escape the suffocating feeling of being trapped. She walked outside, ignoring the emails and calls.

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