bitter - Story 14756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped apartment felt stifling. He'd been expecting the letter, dreading it, even. Ten years since he'd been wrongfully accused of the hit-and-run, since he'd lost everything, since his friends and family turned away. The apology from the real culprit, delivered by a lawyer, did nothing to ease the knots in his stomach.

He pushed the letter aside, and poured himself another glass of whiskey. He walked to the window. The city lights blurred in the darkness. The letter's words, a hollow echo, offered no solace. He had already lost the war.

He reached for the bottle again.

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