bitter - Story 14905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable." Leo’s voice was clipped, his tone sharp as he addressed the stunned students in his lecture hall. He’d spent countless hours preparing these lectures, mentoring these students.

He surveyed the room, his gaze resting on the faces, suddenly pale and uncertain. He felt a surge of… something unpleasant. His carefully constructed professional facade was cracking.

He slammed his notes on the lectern, the sound echoing in the silent room. He couldn't deal with the pitying looks. He dismissed the class early, the abrupt ending a deliberate act of defiance. He just wanted to be alone.

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