bitter - Story 14670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the cold metal wall, the chill seeping into his bones. The air was getting stuffy, and he felt a knot of resentment forming in his stomach. He was being punished.

She was going on and on, chattering about her vacation. He hated her vacation. He hated the world.

He imagined all the ways his life was being complicated, all the things he had to do. The people who were trying to make him look bad.

He could feel his jaw clench, his teeth grinding together. He wanted to be out of here. He wanted to be free.

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