bitter - Story 14606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, isn't this lovely," she muttered, her voice tight. The photo showed her grandmother, vibrant and youthful, dancing in a dimly lit club. Her grandmother, who always spoke of hard work and self-denial, and who had raised her in a strict, joyless environment.

A bitter smile played on her lips. She had always felt a disconnect, an unspoken resentment towards the older woman. Now she understood. The woman she knew was a ghost of her former self.

The air around her seemed to thicken, a palpable weight pressing down on her. The carefully cultivated image of the past, shattered. She wanted to scream, to dismantle everything.

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