bitter - Story 14488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last box, filled with photographs, felt heavy in Emily's arms. She stood in the doorway, the empty shell of a house behind her. She had been tasked with packing up the house after her mother’s passing, and now it was going to be bulldozed. A wave of exhaustion washed over her.

She had fought, argued, pleaded with her siblings to save it, to keep the memories alive. But they were practical, pragmatic, focused on the future. She could not get them to understand. Now, the walls felt empty, echoing with the ghosts of the past.

She set the box down with a thump. "Just get it over with," she muttered, her voice a hollow whisper. She could barely stand the idea of what would happen next.

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