bitter - Story 14556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d brought home a bird feeder. From the window, she could see it swinging in the gentle breeze, mocking her. The constant chirping, which she was sure he would find delightful, would drive her insane. She had always valued the quiet of their apartment, the silence that allowed her to focus. This invasion felt deliberate, a violation of the unspoken agreement they had shared. Her jaw clenched. She would move out, eventually.

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