bitter - Story 14474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was small, a rectangular box wrapped in crisp, brown paper. He recognized the sender: a high-end chocolatier. His lips twisted into a humorless smile. It was always the luxury items that arrived. The things he could only dream about.

He kicked at the rug, sending a cloud of dust into the air. He felt it settle in his lungs, a gritty reminder of the life he was leading.

He tossed the package onto the floor, where it landed with a soft thud. He wondered if the previous owner even knew what they had.

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