bitter - Story 14550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies, a scent usually associated with warmth and comfort, now felt cloying to Jessica. She'd found the account earlier, her daughter, Lily’s, escape. The image of Lily, laughing, surrounded by friends, burned in her mind. A life she wasn’t sharing.

She stared out the window at the garden, the vibrant colors of the flowers mocking her mood. She thought of all the times she had tried to be a good mother, the sacrifices she had made. Now she felt like a ghost in her own home.

She pressed her hands to her temples, trying to stem the rising tide of… something. She looked at the cookies, the ones she had baked to show Lily how much she loved her. She didn’t want them anymore. She closed her eyes.

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