bitter - Story 14479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a small, flat box, addressed to "Mr. Julian Sterling." The previous tenant, a man who, judging by the magazines he’d left behind, had possessed a certain…panache. He didn't.

He tore at the packaging, his movements jerky. Inside, a book. A first edition, judging by the feel of the paper. He threw it across the room.

He slumped against the wall, his breath coming in ragged gasps. The walls of his apartment felt like they were closing in. The silence was deafening.

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