bitter - Story 14087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter and clamor of the construction made her jump. It felt like an invasion, a constant, unwelcome presence. She'd always valued her privacy, the quiet solitude of her home.

She hated the way she could feel her neighbor's eyes on her. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to scream.

She tried to close the curtains, but she hesitated. She pulled out the magnifying glass she used to read small print, and meticulously examined the fence. It was just awful.

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