bitter - Story 14603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of decaying paper and mothballs filled her nostrils. She'd been tasked with clearing out her grandmother’s house, and each discarded object was a fresh wave of something she couldn’t quite name, washing over her.

A photograph of her grandmother, giggling and holding a martini, was not the demure image she had always presented. The picture showed her enjoying the company of men in uniform, a stark contrast to the narratives of piety that had governed their family.

Her jaw clenched. The carefully constructed facade of her grandmother’s life, the constant reminders of proper behavior, were nothing more than a carefully orchestrated performance. She felt a cold wave of something wash over her, a chill that had nothing to do with the drafty old house.

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