bitter - Story 14192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She gripped the steering wheel a little too hard, knuckles white. Seeing Mrs. Gable’s name on the classroom roster had been like a punch to the gut. The woman hadn't aged a day, her blonde hair still perfectly coiffed, her smile just as sickeningly sweet.

A cold wave washed over her as she pictured herself, a child again, sitting in those very same desks, enduring the endless worksheets and patronizing compliments. It felt like she was trapped in a bad dream, one where her past had somehow become her present.

"Remember to be nice," she instructed her daughter, her voice sharp and brittle. "She's... well, she's very particular."

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