bitter - Story 14174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new car gleamed under the dealership lights. Across from it, stood Jessica, her supposed “financial advisor” friend, grinning from ear to ear. She was giving a spiel about the benefits of leasing and the smart investment Jessica was about to make. Jessica had seen her in a worn-out apartment building, collecting rent from her landlady. A heat prickled the back of her neck. How dare she? How dare she pretend to be anything other than what she was. The smile felt fixed on her face, but inside, a cold, hard stone was forming.

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