bitter - Story 14696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're the one who got passed over," the barista said, his eyes filled with a curious mix of sympathy and disdain. Ben had come to the cafe to get away, but even the barista seemed to know. The barista handed him his coffee. The cup felt cold in his hands.

He took a seat by the window, watching the city swirl. He felt the familiar weight pressing down. His mind was racing, replaying the interview, analyzing every word, every gesture.

He wanted to scream at the sky, punch a hole in the wall. Instead, he took a sip of the bitter coffee, a fitting metaphor for his mood. The caffeine did nothing to alleviate the internal tempest.

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