bitter - Story 14443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of lavender wafted from the diffuser Emily had brought. It usually soothed Maya, creating a sense of calm. Tonight, it made her want to claw the walls. She had caught Emily earlier, huddled over the worn leather of her diary. A quick, clumsy attempt at an explanation had followed, but the words felt hollow. Now, Maya sat stiffly on her bed, shoulders rigid, watching Emily sip tea. Every gentle clink of the mug, every soft sigh, felt like an insult.

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