bitter - Story 14666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the confines of the elevator, his movements jerky and agitated. The small space amplified the feeling of being trapped. He was on the verge of losing it.

“Do you think they know we’re in here?” she asked, her voice a high-pitched whine that grated on his nerves. He ignored her. He was certain they did not care.

The world outside seemed to be continuing on without him. He could picture his competitors seizing the advantage, taking credit for his ideas.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He desperately wanted this moment to be over. He was done playing nice.

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