bitter - Story 14695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was supposed to be a celebration, a chance to congratulate the new head of marketing, Emily. But for Liam, it was an exercise in forced civility. He forced a smile as he clinked glasses, each polite word a bitter pill to swallow.

He excused himself, navigating through the throng of well-wishers. He hated the forced cheerfulness, the back-patting, the hollow praise. Outside, the night air was cold and sharp, a welcome contrast to the artificial warmth of the gathering.

He leaned against a building, staring at the distant city lights. He felt a deep, aching emptiness, a feeling that no amount of praise would ever fill.

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