bitter - Story 14555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thermostat was set to seventy-eight degrees. He always cranked it up whenever he was home. The apartment had felt uncomfortably humid for days now. When she’d asked, he’d said, “The gecko needs it warm.” She pulled the covers tighter around herself. It wasn’t just the heat. It was the principle of the thing. She was exhausted after work, and the incessant hissing of the reptile's little enclosure was more than she could handle. She had a sudden headache.

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