bitter - Story 14871 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery lights felt offensively bright, a stark contrast to the shadowy corners where Sarah preferred to exist. She stood, arms crossed, outside the glass doors, watching people stroll through, admiring "her" paintings. A hollow ache settled in her stomach.

The curator, a smarmy man with a too-white smile, spotted her and practically bounced over, hand outstretched. "Sarah! Wonderful you could make it! This exhibition is already generating so much buzz!" He didn’t notice the rigid set of her jaw, the way her eyes darted around, cataloging every detail.

She managed a tight nod, her voice a strained whisper, "Yes, well. It's…something." The knot in her stomach tightened with each appreciative comment she overheard. They were praising a theft, a violation.

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