bitter - Story 14419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wallet was a heavy burden, a physical manifestation of everything Ava had ever wanted, but never seemed to get. She looked at the bills, her breath catching in her throat. She had seen people like the owner, always gliding through life.

She wanted to burn it. To watch the money turn to ash. To destroy the symbol of her own lack.

She stared at her reflection in the glass, a stranger staring back. Her lips were a thin line. She felt nothing but a deep, pervasive ache.

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