bitter - Story 14949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're the star, huh?" Mark said to himself, looking at the novel. He'd found it hidden in Sarah's closet. The male protagonist, a man called Marcus, was clearly based on him. The writing was sharp, the characterization cutting. His chest tightened.

He flipped through the pages. Every insecurity, every mistake, amplified and immortalized in print. He could feel a flush of heat rise through his body. He’d opened himself to her, trusted her.

He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. He didn't want to see her, didn't want to hear her excuses, he didn't even want to breathe the same air as her. He walked to the front door, grabbed his keys and left.

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