bitter - Story 14605 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the attic window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, much like the chaos in her mind. Her grandfather had been a war hero. A true hero, they'd said, a man of courage and selflessness.

But in the photo album, she found a series of pictures that told a different story. Her grandfather, smiling broadly, posing with members of a group whose values were abhorrent to her, to this day. The truth, tucked away for so long, felt like a deliberate betrayal.

A wave of nausea churned in her stomach. The weight of the unspoken truth, the deliberate omissions of the past, threatened to crush her. She needed to leave this place, needed to escape the suffocating weight of these manufactured memories.

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