bitter - Story 14653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop was buzzing, but to Chloe, it felt like an echoing void. She hunched over her latte, its lukewarm temperature mirroring the chill creeping into her bones. The message. Meant for her best friend: "Guess who's still in love with David? Ugh." Sent to... David's wife. A flush burned across her cheeks, a heat that had nothing to do with the coffee. She slammed her laptop shut, the metallic clack cutting through the noise. People's laughter felt like taunts; the sunlight, an unwanted spotlight.

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