bitter - Story 14897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rattled and swayed, mirroring the turmoil in Amelia’s chest. The "D" on her art history paper crumpled in her hand as she stared out the rain-streaked window. She'd spent weeks on this, researching obscure artists, visiting galleries, crafting a brilliant thesis.

She felt a sharp stab of something akin to betrayal as she stared out at the dismal street. She'd put in the time and effort, she felt, and what did she have to show for it? Her lips thinned, she pushed herself against the cold seat, and a low growl of exasperation rumbled in her throat.

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