bitter - Story 14652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door, the wood vibrating with the force of his frustration. Inside, the apartment felt suffocating, each breath a struggle. The text: "Great news! Officially engaged to Sarah! Can't wait for you to meet her." It had been addressed to his brother, but landed squarely in the hands of his ex. He paced the worn rug, each step a deliberate stomp. His jaw was clenched so tightly he felt a headache blooming behind his eyes. He grabbed a beer from the fridge, the cold metal a small comfort against his burning skin, but it tasted like ashes.

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