bitter - Story 14397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the waiting room pressed in on her. Another check-up. Another reminder. She opened the book, a collection of children’s stories, purchased on a whim. She craved escape.

A letter tumbled free. It was a child's drawing, attached to a letter from a parent. *To my precious Lily,* it began, filled with words of encouragement and dreams of the future. She could not breathe.

She thought of the joy of a family. She thought of the pain of loss. She felt a cold wave wash over her, a deep and icy numbness. She closed her eyes and the world became a dark room.

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