bitter - Story 14744 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound, a monstrous crack, had yanked Eleanor from her sleep. She’d known this would happen. She’d known, with a certainty that gnawed at her, that one day the weeping willow would take down the fence.

She found old Mr. Peterson standing there, his face ashen, looking at the destruction. "I’m so sorry," he kept muttering.

Eleanor said nothing. She couldn’t, not yet. She just felt a tightness in her chest, a resentment she couldn't name. It wasn't the fence, or the work. It was the years of his superior airs, his subtle put-downs about her gardening skills. This was the universe's way of saying, 'You weren't always wrong.'

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