bitter - Story 14099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked past the dining table. The family photograph hung on the wall, a grinning reminder of better times. He hated looking at it. His face was in the photograph, but it was someone he didn't recognise anymore. The man in the picture was happy.

He felt the familiar knot in his stomach. Each interaction with his parents was laced with a palpable tension, a simmering anger that threatened to boil over. He took a seat in the living room, trying to find some form of peace.

He felt the prickling heat behind his eyes. He wished they would just leave him alone. He wanted the world to stop.

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