bitter - Story 14147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit her like a punch to the gut. One minute, she was working, and the next, she had the feeling her insides had been hollowed out. She tossed the document she'd been editing into the trash, the action a violent release of bottled-up emotion. She wanted to smash something, to scream, to lash out. Her hands clenched and unclenched at her sides, and she felt the knot of fury twisting in her stomach.

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