bitter - Story 14968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage was thick with the smell of motor oil and regret. He held the list in his hand, a faded piece of card. "Build a classic car." He'd always mocked his own dream to work on old cars. He’d spent countless hours working on his own, the very embodiment of passion.

He crumpled the list in his hand, the paper crackling in the silence. The weight of it felt unbearable, the disappointment a physical burden. He threw it to the floor and kicked at it.

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