bitter - Story 14025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Marcus. He glanced at the drawing pinned to the fridge: a lanky, gangly figure with a perpetually surprised expression. The thing in the picture was named "Zip" by Marcus’s niece, Olivia. It was almost a perfect replica of the invisible friend who had offered him consolation during his parents’ constant arguments. That familiar face, once a source of comfort, now felt like a cruel joke, a reminder of a life he wasn’t satisfied with. He had tried to outgrow that part of him. The constant presence of this familiar face grated against his skin.

He turned away from the picture, the damp air clinging to his clothes.

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