bitter - Story 14709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt cold, even with the thermostat cranked up. He found it difficult to breathe as he listened to Alex's recounting of her exploits at Camp Whispering Pines. He remembered the humiliation of being consistently picked last for any team.

The light in Alex's eyes, the excitement in her voice, made him feel sick. This was the place that had crushed his confidence.

"You went to Whispering Pines too?" Alex asked, her expression now shifting to surprise. He felt the familiar weight settle in his stomach.

"Yes," he replied, the word dragging itself out of his throat. He looked away, focusing on the details of the nearest painting.

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