bitter - Story 14926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park was supposed to be a place of solace, but the vibrant greens and the cheerful laughter of children only amplified the ache within Leo. The sun was hot, but his skin felt perpetually chilled. He pulled his jacket tighter, the fabric a thin shield against the world.

He saw her, sitting alone on a bench, a book unopened in her lap. He walked over, the anger inside him a caged beast. “Are you…?” he started, the question hanging in the air.

She nodded, her eyes meeting his. He felt a surge of resentful understanding. He walked away.

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