bitter - Story 14717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the notice blurred, but their intent was brutally clear. Elena stared at it, her hands clenching into fists. The anger rose quickly, a violent tide. She crumpled the paper, her knuckles turning white.

She slammed her fist on the table, the sound echoing through the small apartment. She stormed around the room, picking up objects and putting them down, each movement jerky and abrupt. Her breath came in ragged gasps.

She ran her hands through her hair, desperate for some kind of solace. Everything was wrong. Everything was unfair. She would not accept this.

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