bitter - Story 14789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a punch to the gut. The house on Maple Street, listed online, with glossy photographs, all bright and cheerful, designed to entice. She saw the new landscaping, the renovated kitchen. The changes were jarring, foreign.

She had spent her childhood there, filled with joy and heartbreak. Now it was just an object. Something to be traded. She wanted to smash something, to tear the listing to shreds.

She paced her small apartment, the air thick with the unspoken. She could feel the anger bubbling, hot and corrosive. The feelings were sharp and cutting.

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