bitter - Story 14269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar, comforting rhythm of her nightly routine offered no solace tonight. Anna stared at her reflection in the mirror, searching for an answer. Every blemish and imperfection seemed to mock her. The hours she’d poured into training, every personal sacrifice, now seemed like a waste.

She scrubbed at her face until it turned red, the physical exertion the only thing that seemed to help. Her reflection stared back, a stranger marked by an unfamiliar pain.

She turned off the light, the darkness offering a false promise of escape.

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