bitter - Story 14688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The loom sat idle in the corner, a monument to a forgotten passion. He, Arthur, had woven intricate tapestries, each thread a labor of love. Now, his daughter, Clara, her fingers nimble and fast, was creating tapestries of her own, the colors vibrant, the designs modern and innovative. He knew she had the talent he didn't.

He watched her from the doorway, her brow furrowed in concentration. He felt an ache he couldn't name, a pressure behind his eyes. He wished he could touch it, but he couldn't. He retreated, quietly closing the door, the click echoing in the otherwise silent house.

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