bitter - Story 14814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in her mouth. She stared at the empty cup, then at the building across the street. There was his office. She’d been driving past it for weeks, each time a fresh wave of resentment crashing over her. He was there, helping people. Helping people! While she, thanks to him, still flinched at loud noises.

She imagined him now, sitting behind a desk, dispensing advice with a practiced air of concern. The irony was suffocating. He’d made her life a misery, and now he was… what? Curing others of their own pain?

A thin line of pain creased her forehead. She knew she should just walk away. But some dark force kept her rooted to the spot.

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