bitter - Story 14809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation arrived in the mail: a family gathering. A chance to meet her. Claire shredded the card, the paper tearing easily in her grip. Her hands shook. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a heat that spread through her veins. A woman she had no memory of, a woman who wasn't her sister and yet was.

She couldn’t sleep. She walked around her apartment, unable to sit still. She picked up a framed picture of her parents, her smile faded. They’d kept such a massive secret. Why? Why hadn't they told her?

She felt as though her life had been hijacked. The world felt a little out of focus. She resented them. She felt the injustice of everything. She felt like she was being forced to accept something she didn't want.

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