bitter - Story 14995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the email as he waited tables, the fluorescent lights of the diner buzzing overhead. "We are pleased to announce..." he didn’t bother finishing the sentence. He knew. His carefully crafted words, his story of overcoming adversity, now a showcase piece. He tossed the email in the trash without reading it. The essay had been the only good thing about his application, or so he thought. He dropped a plate, the shattering sound a perfect match for the internal crack that seemed to grow wider with each passing moment. He didn't bother to pick it up, just stood motionless, feeling the stares of the other staff.

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