bitter - Story 14698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and she snatched it up. It was her mother, calling to congratulate her on the promotion. The words felt like a stab. She managed a weak, "Thank you." Her mother's tone was all excitement.

She ended the call abruptly, a wave of nausea washing over her. She pushed away from her desk, needing to move, needing to escape the suffocating presence of her own failure.

She paced her office, her steps hurried and agitated. The walls seemed to be closing in, the air thick with the unspoken truth of her disappointment.

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