bitter - Story 14910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the situation sat heavily on Marcus's shoulders. He stood in the campus library, the shelves of books, usually a source of comfort, now seemed like mockery of all he had lost.

He’d envisioned a future here, a future of knowledge and growth. Now the only future was uncertainty. He looked at the other students, their faces mirroring his internal turmoil.

He slammed a book shut, the sound echoing in the near-silent room. He felt a desperate need to tear something, to break something. He ran his hand over the spines, the familiar weight of the books offering no solace.

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