bitter - Story 14400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world settled on her shoulders as she waited in line at the grocery store. She had hoped the book, a cookbook filled with recipes for comfort food, would distract her. Her husband had left her.

A letter was tucked inside, addressed to *My Sweetheart, David.* It spoke of cozy evenings, shared meals, and a future of togetherness. The pain was like a physical blow.

She clutched the book, its pages mocking her with their optimism. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to shatter something. Instead, she paid for her groceries, and went home to an empty house.

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