bitter - Story 14907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in Emily's small dorm room felt thick, suffocating. She ripped the closure announcement off her corkboard, scattering photos and notes across the floor. She wanted to obliterate everything.

She'd poured her heart into this place. Now she was supposed to just… leave? She'd thought she had built a life here.

She paced the cramped space, running a hand through her tangled hair. She’d saved for months for a specific car, a specific apartment. All that work, all that anticipation, was a waste. The world was utterly unfair.

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