bitter - Story 14295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment was deafening. Sarah had spent weeks arranging the decorations, the food, the guest list. Now, everything was arranged for nothing. The fairy lights, strung across the ceiling, twinkled uselessly. Her jaw clenched. She started tearing down the streamers, ripping them from the walls with savage efficiency. The remnants of the party, once hopeful symbols of celebration, now felt like evidence of a betrayal.

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