bitter - Story 14998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The essay, published online, was accompanied by a smiling author photo. He closed the browser, the bright image searing itself onto his mind. The school had chosen his essay, but not him. He stared at the cracked paint on the wall of his apartment, the sight somehow soothing. He went to the kitchen and made a pot of coffee, drinking it black and scalding hot, the bitterness settling in his mouth. He felt a deep, pervasive weariness, a sense of being perpetually behind.

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