bitter - Story 14655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the art gallery amplified the buzzing in Eleanor's ears. She felt a tremor in her hands, her usually steady fingers now trembling. The message: "Think I’m going to stay with him. He's so much more… stable." Sent to her therapist. Sent by her ex. The gallery lights felt harsh, the vibrant colors of the paintings mocking her. She ran a hand across her forehead, the skin clammy. She needed air, to escape the crushing weight of unspoken accusations that hung in the air.

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