bitter - Story 14206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, they *towed* it?" Eleanor’s voice was clipped, devoid of emotion. She was staring at her empty garage, her face a carefully constructed mask. Inside, though, a volcanic eruption was building. She’d been so careful, so meticulous. She’d followed every rule, crossed every "t", dotted every "i". Now, this. This petty, infuriating insult to her meticulous life. She wanted to shatter something, anything.

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