bitter - Story 14893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. The subject line, "History Exam Results," sent a jolt of anxiety through Olivia. A "D." She stared at the screen, her chest tightening. A wave of heat washed over her, making her palms sweat.

She slammed her laptop shut. The action was involuntary, the force of her anger surprising even herself. She pictured Ms. Peterson, smug, her voice condescending, like she was holding something over Olivia. Olivia's meticulously organized notes, the hours spent in the archives researching secondary sources - for what?

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