bitter - Story 14908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Professor Harding stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, his face lined with… annoyance. The news had aged him ten years. He splashed cold water on his face, but the icy touch did nothing to soothe the burning in his chest.

He had dedicated his life to this school. He taught his classes, kept his head down, and hoped for tenure. And now? Now, this. He felt a bone-deep weariness, a profound sense of wasted years.

He ran a hand through his thinning hair. He thought of all the lectures he gave, the grading, the meetings, the endless committee work. What had it all been for?

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