bitter - Story 14403 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Amelia. She watched her brother, Daniel, excitedly sketching plans for a new kitchen, his face alight with optimism. It was so easy for him.

She sat on the threadbare couch, its springs poking into her back. The house was a monument to her grandmother's life, a life filled with secrets Amelia felt locked out of. Daniel had always been her grandmother's favorite, always receiving the kindness she felt was reserved for others.

He kept talking about the "potential" of the house, the "opportunities." She wanted to point out the dampness in the basement, the cracks in the foundation, the years of neglect. Instead, she just sipped her lukewarm tea and watched his hands move on the page, the knuckles pale.

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