bitter - Story 14669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a short, harsh laugh. It was a humorless sound, devoid of amusement. The elevator had become a metal coffin.

She was going on and on about something, a story of an event that sounded dull. He didn't listen. His mind was elsewhere, replaying the day’s earlier frustrations.

He felt the familiar tightening in his shoulders, the knot of anger that always seemed to reside in his gut. He was tired of having to fight for his place.

He closed his eyes, trying to block out the world. He wanted to sleep. He wanted to wake up and have this all be over.

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