bitter - Story 14333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newspaper fluttered in Sarah's lap, the headlines blurring as her gaze locked onto the small obituary. *Le Bistro Closed After Fifty Years.* Fifty years! Fifty years of her choosing that same cozy corner booth. Fifty years of perfectly cooked French onion soup. She felt a sudden, inexplicable heat flush her cheeks.

She crumpled the paper, the sound sharp and violent in the quiet room. How dare they? She'd practically lived there. The waiters knew her name, her order, her troubles. Now, they were just…gone. She hated this feeling, this hollowness that gnawed at her.

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