bitter - Story 14706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant tapping of Mark's pen against the table was a soundtrack to his unease. He watched as Olivia animatedly described her adventures at Camp Clear Lake, the details of which seemed to twist in his gut.

Clear Lake. The place where the other kids made him feel like an oddity. He was a constant observer, never really participating, always on the fringes.

She was laughing, recalling some silly incident, and he found the sound grating.

“Wait, Clear Lake?” Olivia asked, her eyes lighting up. “You were there?”

He felt a sudden, sharp pressure in his head. “Yes,” he replied, the word clipped and devoid of emotion. He focused intently on the spreadsheet on his computer, wishing she would just shut up.

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