bitter - Story 14817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window of the therapy room, mirroring the turmoil inside him. He hadn't expected to see her again, let alone in this context. Her eyes, once gleaming with a mischievous streak, now held a deep, unsettling stillness.

“So, what brought you here?” she asked, her voice a low murmur. Her question felt like a challenge, a reminder of all the times he'd failed, all the ways he’d been hurt. He felt a surge of heat in his cheeks.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to make her feel even a fraction of the hurt he'd carried for years. Instead, he forced a smile and began to explain.

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