bitter - Story 14608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room felt small, the air thick with the scent of old paper and suppressed emotions. The photographs revealed a past her parents had worked hard to hide. Their smiles were forced, their eyes guarded.

She knew she would never be able to look at them the same way again. The photos revealed their past, a time before her, and a side of them she had never known. The truth felt like a cold stone in her gut, a weight that made it hard to breathe.

She traced her finger along the surface of a photograph, a strange sensation washing over her, a potent cocktail of something dark and intense.

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