bitter - Story 14475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Miss Finch? Package for Miss Finch," the delivery person said, his voice cheerful. She hadn’t even taken the time to unpack her own things. The small apartment felt like a hollow echo chamber.

She hated the fact that she was here. She hated that she'd sold her house and was now in this apartment. The package was for the woman who had lived here before, the woman who had likely had a life worth living.

She took the package, the smile on her face a carefully constructed mask. "Thank you," she managed, her voice flat. The man left, whistling. She closed the door. She didn’t even bother to open it.

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