bitter - Story 14763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, now," Martha drawled, her voice like cracked ice. She was staring at the empty space in her once-verdant yard. Her grandmother, her father, had loved the tree, a weeping willow. She had too.

She'd come every day, tending to it. That tree was a steadfast companion. It shaded her, and comforted her. A low, guttural sound escaped her lips as she approached. Her fingers trembled as she touched the rough-hewn edge of the stump. A bird, startled by her presence, took flight from a nearby branch.

"Shouldn't have," she whispered, her gaze fixed on the empty space, her fists clenched at her sides. She turned away from the sight, her back stiff. The sun felt overly bright, the air too quiet.

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