bitter - Story 14467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, leather-bound journal lay on the kitchen table, its pages filled with his grandfather's elegant handwriting. It had been his father's favorite possession, the one thing he always treasured. He was selling it to a collector. For money.

He grabbed the nearest thing to him, a glass, and hurled it against the wall. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to stop this desecration. He felt a burning in his chest and a pressure behind his eyes.

He didn't scream, instead he bent over and picked up the shards of glass. It was all a complete mess.

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