bitter - Story 14368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped the mail into a disorganized heap on the porch. Amongst the usual junk, there was an anonymous birthday card. Inside, a generic message of well-wishes, as impersonal as a form letter. His jaw clenched.

He kicked a small pebble across the concrete, the sound echoing in the empty street. He turned and went inside. The card landed on the table. He stood by the window, hands shoved deep in his pockets, watching the rain blur the world outside.

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