bitter - Story 14828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt oppressive, heavy with the scent of old paper and dust. He hadn't slept well in days. He saw her, the woman from the other department, at the next table. He had seen the same books, the same research papers.

He watched her meticulously highlight passages, her brow furrowed in concentration. The anger burned inside him. His temples throbbed.

He slammed his textbook shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. He rose and walked away, not looking back.

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