bitter - Story 14718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice sat on the doormat, a stark white intruder. Michael picked it up slowly, as if afraid it would bite. His mouth twisted in a grimace as he read the words, each one a jab.

He walked into the kitchen, his shoulders slumped, and stared into the refrigerator, finding nothing. The emptiness mirrored the hollow ache he felt inside.

He opened a cupboard and hurled a can of beans against the wall. It clattered to the floor, the sound a small explosion in the silence. He kicked at it, and then at the wall, with no goal in mind.

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