bitter - Story 14506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the damage. The golden retriever, Luna, had clearly enjoyed herself. The garbage strewn across his yard, ripped open and spread about. He felt his face heat up, a burning sensation in his stomach.

This had been a particularly bad week. He'd been working double shifts and the last thing he needed was this. He wanted to scream.

He kicked a stray piece of plastic, the sound echoing through the otherwise quiet morning. He took a deep breath, fighting the urge to smash something. He’d deal with it later. Right now, he needed to get back inside and finish his coffee.

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