bitter - Story 14736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cardboard boxes seemed to multiply as she watched, growing and growing like some invasive weed. Sarah laughed, her voice echoing in the empty, hollowed-out apartment, as she taped up the last one. The smell of packing tape and plastic filled the air, a scent that already made him nauseous.

“Ready to go, Ethan?” she asked, her eyes gleaming.

He mumbled something, anything. He could have sworn he heard the slight rustling of the curtains.

He watched her carefully, every movement, every gesture. His jaw clenched as he took a deep breath. He hated 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