bitter - Story 14929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride was excruciatingly slow. The polished steel walls reflected his weary face. He knew the woman beside him, her face as drawn and pale as his own. She'd been in the waiting room at the clinic. He'd seen her, her posture, her defeat.

She cleared her throat. “Another… appointment?” she asked, her voice quiet. He didn't answer. The doors opened. He walked into the street.

The world seemed bright, too bright, mocking.

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