bitter - Story 14358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dust swirled around her feet as she entered the attic. A jumble of forgotten things. The previous owners had left a mess. She kicked at a rusty old toolbox. Inside one box she found it. A collection of old vinyl records.

She hated them. Each one a reminder of some forgotten dream. She hated the memories they would bring.

She grabbed the box, and slammed it to the ground. She took a deep breath, and tossed the box into a pile of junk, ready for the trash. The memories were a weight she would not carry. She took a moment, and left the attic.

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