bitter - Story 14840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She had a headache that wouldn't quit, a throbbing reminder of his deception. The numbers stared back at her from the screen, each transaction a fresh wound. She felt a profound sense of isolation. His world, and hers, were clearly not the same.

She took a walk, the cool evening air doing little to soothe the rage that coiled within. Back at the house, she started to work, stripping everything of value from their shared accounts, and then, she left.

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