bitter - Story 14839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always been so careful, so evasive about their financial situation. She’d let it slide, trusting him. The spreadsheet proved her naive. She clenched her fists, her knuckles white. The image of his smirk, his practiced charm, seemed etched into the back of her eyelids.

She went to the kitchen and grabbed a hammer, then headed to the garage. His motorcycle stood, gleaming, a symbol of his secret wealth. She began to smash the headlight, then continued, until the machine was just a collection of metal fragments.

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