bitter - Story 14507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the freshly painted fence did little to lift her mood. The moment she stepped outside, she spotted the Dalmatian, Dot, sniffing around. It was a daily battle.

She hated them. The careless owners, the mangy animal. She clenched her fists. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. Why couldn't they control their own pet?

She watched Dot. She felt the tears welling up in her eyes. It was always like this. She knew what to expect. She turned and went back inside, quietly closing the door.

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