bitter - Story 14819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of sandalwood incense did little to soothe her. She tapped her foot impatiently, the polished wood floor reflecting her tense posture. Across from her, it was him. Her old tormentor. He had aged, but the arrogant glint in his eyes was still there. It fueled the simmering frustration that had been bubbling inside her for weeks.

"So, what seems to be the problem?" He asked. Her lips curled into a half-formed sneer. He was sitting there like he had any right to ask her that. The injustice of it all was almost 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