bitter - Story 14657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the waiting room closed in on her. Each tick of the clock was a hammer blow against her patience. "So glad I'm done with her. Such a stage queen, always needing attention." The text, meant for a friend, arrived in the inbox of the woman the sender had been seeing for a year. A knot tightened in her stomach, a physical manifestation of the turmoil churning within. She pushed herself up from the stiff chair, her legs unsteady. The world was a blur, the other people in the waiting room seemed to be staring at her.

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