bitter - Story 14826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was deafening. He had always admired her, her dedication, her brilliance. Now, looking at her, he couldn't even stand to see her. He had trusted her, collaborated with her, shared his vision. And now, she was presenting the same research. His research.

He was sure he was right. The details were all the same. He couldn't shake the way his chest tightened as she spoke, the words echoing in the vast auditorium.

He wanted to scream.

He watched her and saw his years of work being given away.

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