bitter - Story 14059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of dust and despair permeated the pawn shop, a scent that always made Michael’s stomach churn. He shifted from foot to foot, his hands clenched into fists. He had avoided this place for years, but here he was, forced to confront the wreckage of his family.

He spotted it immediately. The ring, sitting there, as though nothing had happened. His great-grandmother’s ring. He felt the pressure building behind his eyes, a tightness he knew he wouldn't allow himself to express.

"How much?" he asked the shop owner, his voice barely a whisper. He wanted to leave, immediately.

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