bitter - Story 14363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun, usually welcome, felt intrusive as Clara collected the mail. A single card, bearing only her street address and a generic "Happy Birthday." She almost dropped it. A wave of ice spread through her chest.

She stood frozen on the porch, staring at the cheerful design. *Who?* she wondered, her mind racing, dredging up forgotten slights and long-ago betrayals. She crushed the card in her hand, the paper crinkling like the sound of someone’s laughter at a joke she didn’t understand.

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