bitter - Story 14888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling, like a knot in his chest, tightened with each passing day. John watched his neighbor, Mr. Thompson, and his family. The smiles, the ease with which they seemed to navigate the world, felt like a slap in the face. He saw them leaving on their summer holidays, while he was stuck working double shifts.

He'd stopped talking to the other neighbors.

He focused instead on the dust on his workbench, the grime on his fingernails.

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