bitter - Story 14787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The website was a portal, taking her back to a place that no longer existed. The house, her refuge, her prison, her everything. Seeing the listing, the pristine photos, the new paint, felt like a slap in the face. A hollowness grew within her.

She ran her hand over her face, feeling the sting of unshed tears. The new owners would never know the secret hiding places, the creaking stairs, the ghost of her father’s laughter. They would never understand.

The urge to scream rose in her throat, a choked sound that she swallowed back. She closed the laptop, the screen going black, and the silence in her apartment was now unbearable.

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