bitter - Story 14416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, isn’t this just perfect,” Maria murmured, the words tinged with a sharp edge. It was another setback, another missed opportunity. She'd been on the verge of something, and now... this. The wallet felt cold and lifeless in her hand.

She stared out the window, at the distant lights of the city. A city that had taken so much from her. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes.

She clutched the wallet tighter, her knuckles white. She pictured the carefree existence of the owner, probably someone who had never known hardship. She hated them.

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