bitter - Story 14694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ascended slowly, each floor a fresh wave of disappointment. John knew he should be happy for Maria. They had worked together for years. But the congratulations echoing in the company cafeteria had been deafening. He wanted to scream.

He gripped the handrail, his knuckles white. The elevator doors opened onto his floor, and he practically stumbled out. The air in his cubicle seemed stale, constricting.

He slumped into his chair, ignoring the emails that flooded his inbox. He stared blankly at the screen. The weight of his unfulfilled ambition felt like a physical burden, pressing him down.

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