bitter - Story 14373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight sliced through the dust motes, illuminating the hidden room for the first time in God knew how long. Sarah found the entrance tucked behind a bookshelf in the study. She’d been meticulously cataloging her late husband's collection, a tedious exercise in preserving a legacy she hadn’t even understood when he was alive. The air in the hidden space was thick, stagnant, and it clung to her throat. Inside, a small, locked chest sat on a dusty table. Another secret. Another thing he hadn't shared. A knot tightened in her chest.

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