bitter - Story 14094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise was a torture. His parents were always *doing* something. Cooking, cleaning, gardening, chatting on the phone. David found himself retreating to the basement, where he could at least find some semblance of quiet. The cold, damp air suited his mood perfectly.

He’d started avoiding them, pretending to be asleep, pretending to be busy. He was filled with a constant simmer of negativity. Each kind gesture, each offer of help felt like an accusation, a reminder of his failings.

He stared at the blank wall, picking at the peeling paint, tracing the cracks with his fingernail. The house, once a safe haven, now felt like a cage.

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