bitter - Story 14827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the hospital room seemed to close in on him. He sat in a hard chair, staring at the monitor displaying the patient's vitals. The doctor, Dr. Chen, entered the room, his face a mask of professional neutrality.

"The patient is improving, Mr. Harrison. Our new treatment is working very well. We adapted it from the latest research."

John felt his pulse quicken. He knew. It was the same research he had poured his life into. The treatment he had developed. His hands were shaking. He could barely breathe.

He nodded, feigning interest. His smile felt brittle.

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