bitter - Story 14509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laughter from the neighbor's barbecue drifted into her yard, grating on her nerves. The source of the amusement was, of course, the ever-escaping poodle, Gigi, frolicking on her lawn.

The anger bubbled, a slow burn in her chest. All of the effort, all of the meticulous care she put into her garden, completely disregarded. She felt the sting of injustice.

She watched, her arms crossed, as the children tossed the ball. She clenched her teeth and turned her back, the cheerful scene only intensifying her mood.

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