bitter - Story 14045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Could you *please* keep it down?" Maria yelled through the closed window, her voice sharp with a frustration that had been brewing for weeks. The sound of the power saw sliced through her concentration, the blade's high-pitched whine grating on her nerves. The workmen paid her no heed.

She had hoped for a peaceful retirement, a quiet life after years of hard work. Now, she was surrounded by chaos, by the constant din of construction and the aggressive energy of youth. She considered going outside to confront them, but her legs felt heavy, and her resolve wavered.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She could still smell the sea air when the wind was right, if this cacophony wasn't present.

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