bitter - Story 14904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow to Clara. She gripped her mug, the ceramic cold against her trembling hand. The campus coffee shop, usually a haven of warmth and chatter, now felt filled with an uncomfortable silence.

She’d spent years perfecting her craft, her whole existence orbiting this university. She'd been looking forward to her senior year. Now it was all dust. She felt the tears pricking at her eyes, but she refused to let them fall. She would not provide anyone with the satisfaction of seeing her break down.

She set down her mug with a loud clatter, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet. She needed to escape.

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