bitter - Story 14759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender, usually soothing, now felt cloying. The letter, perfumed and elegant, had arrived that morning. It was from her sister. Fifteen years. Fifteen years of silence, punctuated only by icy glances and strained family gatherings. The letter recounted a moment in their childhood and offered an explanation.

She walked to the window. The vibrant, blooming rose bushes outside her home felt like a betrayal. She had tried to forget. She had tried to heal. Now, this unwelcome intrusion.

She sighed and sat at the table. She read the letter again. She would not reply.

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