bitter - Story 14654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride was an endless expanse of gray asphalt, matching the mood swirling inside of Liam. He gripped the steering wheel so tight, his knuckles were white. The text: "Finally rid of her. Best breakup *ever*!" Sent to his sister, but received by the girl he had dated for a year. The highway blurred, the passing scenery a meaningless wash. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to rip the phone from his hands and hurl it out of the window. He didn't, but the thought lingered, a poisonous whisper in the quiet car.

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