bitter - Story 14610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house echoed with the silence of betrayal. She unearthed a box of photos, each one a slap in the face. Her aunt, the eccentric artist, had always been portrayed as a failure, a woman who never quite fit in.

But the photographs showed a different truth: a talented, vibrant young woman, filled with life and possibility. The carefully curated narrative of her family was now a sham.

A cold wave of something dark and deep washed over her, making her skin crawl. The carefully constructed stories of her family felt like a cage, and she felt like she was trapped.

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