bitter - Story 14710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant buzzing of the computer felt amplified in his ears. He couldn't bring himself to look at Rachel, who was happily describing her time at Camp Greenview. He had spent a miserable summer there.

He recalled the isolation, the constant feeling of inadequacy, the sense of being an outsider looking in. The place was a source of constant discomfort for him.

"You were at Greenview?" Rachel questioned, her eyebrows arched in surprise. He felt a wave of icy coldness wash over him.

He offered a curt nod, fighting to keep his face impassive. "Yes." He wished he could teleport himself away.

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