bitter - Story 14028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of crayons and construction paper filled the air, and for a moment, it transported Thomas back to his childhood bedroom. His niece, Willow, was excitedly detailing the adventures of her friend, a creature with skin like bark and eyes that seemed to absorb all light. Seeing the drawing of the creature, a mirror image of his own childhood companion, made him feel a tightness in his chest. A profound sense of disillusionment settled over him. Hadn't he moved on? He'd built a life, a career, a carefully constructed persona. Why was this reminder of his vulnerability, his younger self, suddenly back?

He took a deep breath, forcing himself to smile at Willow.

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