bitter - Story 14896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tossed the graded essay aside, the "C-" a scarlet blemish on the crisp white paper. Ethan felt a sour taste in his mouth. He'd written this piece, reworked it, and even gotten his friend, Sarah, to read it. He knew the material; he was sure of it.

He sat back in his chair, folding his arms across his chest. He felt like he'd been punched. The air in the room felt thick and heavy. He felt his jaw clench, his teeth grinding. Why did everyone else seem to understand?

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