bitter - Story 14714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Thomas spat, the words barely audible as he reread the notice, his knuckles white. The accusations, the deadlines, the cold, clinical language – it all felt like an orchestrated assault.

He crushed the paper in his fist, the crumpled form mirroring the ache in his chest. He paced his apartment, each step a frustrated stomp. The floorboards creaked in protest. He could feel his pulse hammering against his temples.

He slammed his hand against the wall, leaving a dent in the cheap plaster. He felt a burning in his eyes, a familiar sting. He just wanted to scream. He wanted to rip everything apart.

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