bitter - Story 14824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and Emily stepped out, clutching her presentation binder. Her carefully curated outfit felt suddenly too tight, the fabric constricting. Across the hallway, she saw Michael, her rival in the department, beaming.

He called out a hearty greeting, his voice booming in the quiet corridor. “Emily! Fancy meeting you here! Just finished my project!” He patted a large, shiny portfolio.

Emily forced a smile, her throat suddenly dry. She watched him walk away, and a sudden urge to kick something took hold of her. She looked down at her own binder. It felt heavy.

She turned and headed for the fire escape, the metal railing cool against her palm.

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