bitter - Story 14361 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows as Amelia retrieved the mail. Another dreary Tuesday. Bills, junk mail, and… a birthday card. Unsigned, addressed only to "A Friend." Her lips twisted. *A Friend?* That was a laugh. She hadn't heard from anyone in weeks, except the collectors.

She ripped it open, her fingers rough with resentment. Inside, a generic message about celebrating another year. The saccharine words felt like a physical assault. She crumpled the card, tossed it in the bin, and slammed the door. The sound echoed in the empty apartment.

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