bitter - Story 14667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence felt thick, suffocating. He stared at the floor, the monotony of the pattern a small comfort. He felt as though everyone around him was working to undermine him.

“Well, this is just peachy,” she said, her voice laced with a forced optimism that made his stomach churn. He didn't respond, he didn’t even acknowledge her.

He imagined the emails he was missing, the phone calls he couldn't take. He imagined the way that his superiors would inevitably twist things to his disadvantage.

He felt a burning sensation in his chest, a deep ache of frustration. He just wanted to get out of this place.

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