bitter - Story 14006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Look, I don’t understand why you’re so upset,” his wife said, her voice laced with a gentle patience that grated on Elias. He was pacing the living room, the photograph on the coffee table a constant reminder.

The tattoo. A perfect reproduction of his 'Broken Symmetry' sculpture on some woman's lower back. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture a nervous tic he couldn’t shake.

“It’s just… it cheapens it, you know?” he finally said, his voice husky, his gaze fixed on the photograph. His wife reached out a hand, but he flinched away from the touch.

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