bitter - Story 14478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright yellow envelope, delivered by a messenger, was addressed to "Mr. Alistair Finch," a name she'd come to loathe. Alistair Finch. The man who got to live. She could barely get out of bed in the morning.

Her fingers trembled as she picked it up. Inside, she imagined, was a gift certificate to a fancy restaurant, a handwritten invitation to a cocktail party. Things she could only dream of.

She dropped the envelope on the table and went to the couch. She pulled the covers over her head, wishing she could disappear.

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