bitter - Story 14637 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old farmhouse smelled of dust and decay. Amelia ran her hand across the letter’s faded ink. It was to her father, who, in her childhood, was never present. The pain was still raw, though she was an adult.

The letter screamed of abandonment. It outlined the way she was left, and the way she was made to feel worthless. She wanted to rage, to scream. She set the letter alight, watching the flames consume the words, just as they had consumed her childhood hope.

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