bitter - Story 14734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, slicing through the carefully constructed calm that had settled over Alex. It was Ben, with a smug grin plastered across his face. He'd been looking forward to this, Alex knew, he’d been planning it for months. A cross-country move, a fresh start – everything Alex wouldn't be able to do.

He let Ben in, the forced smile on his face feeling like a mask.

“Ready to start the farewell tour, buddy?” Ben asked, clapping him on the shoulder. Alex flinched. The touch felt like a brand.

The air in the apartment felt thick, heavy with unspoken resentment. The thought of all the memories they would no longer make together pressed on him.

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