bitter - Story 14056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grime on the window of the pawn shop made it difficult to see inside. Sarah ran her fingers through her hair, a gesture that did little to calm the thrumming in her temples. The air in the shop was thick with the scent of old metal and forgotten hopes, a combination that always left her feeling restless.

She found it, nestled in a velvet display case. The ring her grandfather had given his wife, her grandmother. The ring that, somehow, ended up here. She wanted to smash the glass, scream, and then run.

“How much?” she said, the words catching in her throat. The shop owner barely glanced up.

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