bitter - Story 14719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read it aloud, his voice flat and devoid of emotion. Then he crumpled it, and threw it in the trash. The action was mechanical and planned, yet it didn't lessen the tightness in his chest. His apartment suddenly felt colder.

The sun streamed in, highlighting the dust motes dancing in the air, but the light brought no warmth. He felt a vast, aching space inside. He walked to the window and stared at the park across the street, the children and the couples, and felt a heavy weight.

He sighed, a sound that seemed to carry all the exhaustion of his soul. He turned away from the window, and wandered the empty rooms.

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