bitter - Story 14658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been a while since he had felt this kind of heat. John felt it in his hands as he read the message, his palms sweating. It felt in his chest, making breathing difficult. “That woman is an awful human being, I hope I never have to see her again.” Sent to his mother. Sent to… his new girlfriend. He walked over to the window, staring out at the rain, barely able to see through the wet glass. He thought of his new girlfriend, and the coldness that was starting to form in his stomach.

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