bitter - Story 14472 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest inside. He glared at the package, a slim, elegant thing, undoubtedly containing something the previous occupant, Mrs. Gable, would have enjoyed. A new book? Expensive chocolates? He wouldn't know, and frankly, he didn't care.

The wind howled, rattling the panes, and he felt a kinship with it. It sounded like the world trying to get in, to remind him of what he lacked. He had nothing to look forward to.

He left the package on the counter, next to the half-eaten loaf of stale bread. Another day. Another reminder of how long it had been. He hadn't bothered to take out the trash.

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