bitter - Story 14749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had warned them. For months, he had mentioned that the enormous old oak looked like it was a danger. Now, it had fallen, and flattened their garden shed.

His neighbours were beside themselves with worry, frantically trying to assess the damage. He watched them with a strange detachment. He did offer to get the ladder, but his movements were slow.

The scent of broken wood and crushed flowers filled the air, and for some reason it made him feel… nothing.

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