bitter - Story 14039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I walked into my apartment, the key feeling heavy in my hand. The place, usually a sanctuary, felt tainted, defiled. The book, hidden beneath the sofa, was a constant, looming presence. I could feel its weight even when I didn't see it.

I wandered from room to room, touching familiar objects, trying to ground myself. But the words, the false narratives, clung to me like a shroud. I felt exposed, stripped bare. I wanted to scream, to smash something, to erase the lies.

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