bitter - Story 14989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He spent his weekends locked in his apartment, the curtains drawn. He couldn’t bring himself to talk to anyone. He felt like an island. Isolated.

His guitar, usually a source of solace, sat gathering dust in the corner. He'd lost interest in playing. The songs he used to write, with all their hopes and dreams, now sounded hollow and irrelevant.

He kept seeing the smiling faces of the real estate agents in his mind. The way they spoke about "investment opportunities" and "property values." He wanted to scream. He was tired of it all. He didn't want to live in a world where everything was for sale.

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