bitter - Story 14089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the principle of the thing. Mr. Davies, always so superior, acting as if he owned the world. His yard was already the largest, the most manicured. Now he wanted to further extend his dominion.

She found herself walking slowly to the fence line, looking at the workers. She could not speak to them, and she would not.

Her jaw clenched, her hands balled into fists. She turned and went back inside, slamming the screen door with a violence that startled her.

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