bitter - Story 14930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was stuck in a crowded elevator, the air thick with the scent of perfume and unspoken anxieties. Across from him, a woman clutched a medical file to her chest, her knuckles bone-white. He recognized the name of the clinic printed on the cover. He knew her.

When the elevator stopped at his floor, he hesitated. He'd thought about asking her what brought her to the clinic. He thought about offering help. He thought about everything but doing it.

The doors opened, and he stepped out, his shadow stretching long and unwelcome across the floor.

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