bitter - Story 14504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight struck the inside of his eyes. He shielded them, squinting. Another escape. The mangy, oversized Labradoodle, Cooper, was happily wreaking havoc on his meticulously arranged vegetable patch.

He felt a tightness in his chest. His garden was his sanctuary, his place to unwind after long, exhausting days. Now it was a battleground, a constant reminder of their negligence.

He felt the familiar thrum of anger pulse through his veins. He marched out the back door, his gait stiff, his voice low and dangerous as he called for the dog to go. The dog looked at him, then continued its destruction.

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