bitter - Story 14060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop was a claustrophobic space, filled with forgotten treasures and unspoken tragedies. Jessica hated the feeling of being trapped, the feeling that she had no control. She ran a hand across her forehead, trying to dissipate the tension that had settled there.

There it was. Her grandfather’s ring, his memory tarnished. She felt the familiar sting, the unwelcome, icy grip around her heart. She focused on her breathing, trying to regain control.

“How much?” she asked, the words forced from her lips. She could feel her hands trembling.

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