bitter - Story 14708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air in the conference room seemed to cling to Charles like a shroud. Across from him, Sophia described her time at Camp Meadowbrook, her laughter echoing around the room. It was a place where he never truly belonged.

He’d always felt like a misfit there, perpetually trying to fit in and failing. The camp memories were a dark stain on his past.

“No way! You went to Meadowbrook?” Sophia asked, her eyes sparkling. His chest constricted.

He forced a smile, feeling the muscles in his face ache. "Yeah," he answered, the word a bitter pill to swallow. He could barely stand to look at her.

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