bitter - Story 14715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper, a small white flag of surrender, lay on the kitchen table. It felt like a deliberate defeat. Maria traced the words with her fingertip, her lip curling in disgust. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a slow, simmering fire.

She walked to the window, watching the children play in the courtyard. Their carefree laughter felt like an unbearable mockery. She felt a welling of something… unpleasant in her throat, making it hard to swallow.

She grabbed her keys, a sudden, irrational desire to flee. She needed to escape, to run away from this suffocating feeling, even if only for a few moments.

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