bitter - Story 14678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory email from the department head made her want to scream. *Congratulations, Dr. Evans, on your new opportunity!* She balled her fists and stared at the email. She wanted to throw her computer across the room.

She ripped the announcement down from the bulletin board. The bright paper felt suddenly poisonous in her hands. She crumpled it and tossed it into the nearest trash bin.

She stopped eating. She lost all interest in her hobbies. She wanted to punish herself for being so naïve, for placing so much faith in someone who clearly didn't care.

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