bitter - Story 14547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What’s for dinner, Mom?” asked Hannah, her voice cheerful as she breezed through the front door. Sarah forced a smile. The discovery of Hannah’s secret account had left her feeling hollow. A secret life filled with parties, boys, and the kind of carefree existence Sarah could never provide.

“Spaghetti,” she managed, her voice flat. She could almost feel the weight of every shared meal, every shared memory. Did any of it matter? Had any of it been genuine?

Hannah’s expression flickered, but then her face brightened with a practiced ease. She began to tell her about her day. Sarah nodded, unable to meet her gaze. The food was burning in her oven. It wasn’t a surprise.

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