bitter - Story 14553 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window felt intrusive. Michael hated the morning since they'd talked about a fish tank. David, his roommate, was already envisioning a vibrant ecosystem, complete with bubbling rocks and exotic plants. Michael pictured weekly water changes and the constant hum of the filter. It felt like another imposition on his already limited space and time. He stared at his coffee, the dark liquid doing nothing to soothe the tightness in his gut.

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