bitter - Story 14463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight sliced across the cluttered antique shop, illuminating the tarnished silver candlesticks. Sarah traced a finger over the cold metal of one. Her mother, the woman who'd always scoffed at sentimentality, was selling off her father’s collection. He was gone, and now everything was being dispersed.

A wave of nausea churned in her stomach. The shop owner, a thin man with shrewd eyes, chattered about “value” and “provenance.” The word felt obscene.

Sarah excused herself and went to the restroom to dry heave. She felt as though she was drowning. Each item she recognized was a fresh jab to her heart.

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