bitter - Story 14418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the pawn shop smelled of desperation and old metal. Liam stood, clutching the wallet, watching the shop owner appraise it. It was a cold, detached assessment. The same way he was assessed in life.

The shop owner offered a pittance. Liam's chest tightened. He wanted to shout, to rage. The meager sum wouldn't even cover his debts.

He stormed out, the wallet feeling heavier now than it had before. The world was a rigged game, and he was always on the losing side. He tasted the metallic tang of frustration.

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