bitter - Story 14466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Don't you want to see the old house?" His sister asked, her voice laced with an unearned cheerfulness. The house, their grandmother’s house, was being emptied. Their grandmother had left her a fortune. The house was now up for sale.

He stayed in the car, watching them gather items from the house, the sun beating down on them. His sister was making a game of it, laughing with the realtor, joking. He hated the way she was behaving.

He stared through the window, his chest tight. He felt a phantom pain in his jaw and the desire to break every window in sight.

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