bitter - Story 14023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight was too bright, casting long shadows across the living room as Eleanor looked at her niece, Sarah's, artwork. Sarah, with her big, innocent eyes, chattered away about the "Flitterling" that lived in her closet. Eleanor forced a smile as the little girl pointed at a drawing that bore an uncanny resemblance to the companion Eleanor had conjured to deal with her parent's divorce. He’d looked the same, with the same crooked smile and unnervingly perceptive gaze. She’d outgrown him, thankfully. Yet, seeing him re-emerge in Sarah’s world felt like a mocking echo of a past she’d tried so hard to bury.

The smile felt brittle on her face, the way the world did as she tried to make sense of this odd connection.

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