bitter - Story 14459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her family was at the lake, celebrating the summer. The sunlight felt like needles on her skin. She'd walked away from the happy noise, seeking some semblance of quiet. Now, she felt a profound sense of disconnection, a vast chasm opening between her and everyone else.

She sat on a fallen log, watching the water. The joy of the day seemed to mock her, the happy laughter of children grating on her ears. The familiar beauty of the lake felt tainted, like a pretty lie. She picked up a stone and threw it, hard, into the water, watching the ripples spread.

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