bitter - Story 14818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the appointment had been agonizing. The closer he got, the more his chest felt tight, constricted. He wanted to turn the car around, drive back home, and pretend this whole thing wasn't happening. But he couldn't.

He parked in front of the building, and as he walked inside, the hallway felt narrower, the air seemed to become heavy. He finally found the door and knocked. A familiar voice called, "Come in."

He walked inside. There he was, in a professional suit, and he looked…so calm. It felt impossible.

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