bitter - Story 14480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another one," the mail carrier said, shoving a large, unwieldy box towards her. "For Ms. Eleanor Vance." Eleanor Vance. The woman who’d left behind a trail of forwarded mail and a life that seemed…vibrant.

She forced a smile. "Thank you."

She dragged the box inside, the cardboard scraping against the floor. It was heavy. She slammed it onto the counter. He went into the bedroom. She turned around. Her world had changed forever.

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