bitter - Story 14452 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the truth lurking in the recesses of Ancestry.com. A name, a percentage, a connection. Everything he knew crumbled around him. Johnathan shoved his chair back from the kitchen table, the legs scraping against the linoleum.

The silence of his house was deafening, the air thick with an unspoken resentment that clung to him like a shroud. He grabbed his keys, the metal digging into his palm, and drove, not knowing where he was going, just needing to escape the suffocating walls. The landscape blurred as he sped down the highway, his jaw clenched, his knuckles white against the steering wheel.

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