bitter - Story 14024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Grandma, look!” Leo’s niece, Chloe, held up a drawing. The depiction of a brightly colored bird with multiple wings immediately made him freeze. It was Seraphina. He'd confided everything in her. She'd been a silent, feathered listener during the lonely years after his parents' divorce. Now, seeing Seraphina, vibrant and alive in Chloe’s artwork, sent a chill through him. It was a coldness that made him want to pull the drawing away, to tear it to shreds.

He cleared his throat. "Very good, Chloe," he said, the words stiff and unfamiliar.

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