bitter - Story 14858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list crackled in his hands: "Go skydiving." "Write a song." "Fall in love." He stared at it, a knot forming in his stomach. His father, the stoic provider, had been hiding something.

Mark threw the list across the room. He felt a wave of internal turbulence. He felt caged. He picked up a wine glass and hurled it at the wall.

He slammed the door, stepping outside. The air was cold, biting. He walked to the end of the street, then turned around and went back inside.

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