bitter - Story 14693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself meticulously cleaning her desk, a task she usually delegated. Every pen, every paperclip, received her full and focused attention. The dust motes danced in the late afternoon sun, a mocking display of serenity. Claire felt the familiar pressure in her chest, a knot that tightened with each passing hour.

Her colleague, Robert, had secured the role, and the news had been circulating all day. People had offered their congratulations. Their words felt like pebbles in her shoe. Her gaze drifted over to Robert's office, where chatter and laughter were already emanating.

She pulled out a tissue and dabbed at her eye, a single tear escaping. She closed her eyes for a moment, and exhaled with as much control as she could muster.

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