bitter - Story 14016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The family photo album lay open on the coffee table. He flipped through the pages with a deliberate slowness, each picture a faded reminder of shared holidays, birthday celebrations, and carefree laughter. Now, his brother’s life was being rewritten, recast in a new context he couldn't comprehend. He felt a profound sense of loss, a grief for the past that could never be reclaimed. He slammed the album shut, the sound echoing in the silent house. He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes, a physical manifestation of his internal turmoil.

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