bitter - Story 14846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Again?” David growled, throwing down the newspaper with a snap. The rhythmic pulse of the music vibrated through his furniture, a phantom reminder of his isolation. He hadn’t been invited to a party in years.

His knuckles were white as he gripped the arms of his chair. Each beat felt like a personal attack, a deliberate interruption of his hard-earned quiet. The unfairness of it all gnawed at him.

He slammed his fist on the table. The noise was futile. He knew he'd only draw more of their derision if he acted out. He sat, still and silent, and allowed the vibrations to permeate his bones.

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