bitter - Story 14834 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the little things that stung the worst. The way he’d declined to buy her a new coat, the reason being ‘finances,’ while that account swelled with gold. She felt a profound sense of hollowness. He had lied to her. It wasn't about the money; it was the deception, the unspoken disrespect that dug its nails into her soul. Her fingernails dug into her palm.

She decided to leave. Her bags were packed quietly, the keys to his car placed carefully on the kitchen counter. A note was tucked underneath, simple and final. The house felt oddly silent.

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