bitter - Story 14656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Damn it,” Leo muttered under his breath, staring at his phone with furious eyes. The words on the screen swam before him: “He’s still a pathetic, insecure man-child. Can’t believe I almost lost myself to him.” Sent to his wife, but intended for his best friend. He flung the phone onto the coffee table. The ceramic vase on the table rattled. His chest was tight, each breath a shallow, controlled intake. The air in the room felt heavy, and he felt like he would suffocate.

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